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PHP Version Requirements - October 2010

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:14 am
by corbo950
Hello All,

I tried searching for this topic as I figured it would have been asked before. I could not find it and given that it is a very time sensitive question I am going to ask it. I apologize if I missed another post on it.

I am starting the beginning of a very long large project which hopefully a lot of developers will like and use. Given that I was wondering what version of PHP I should be developing in. There are some great new features in PHP 5.3 but I don't want people suck with PHP 5.2 left out in the cold. My project will not be done for at least a year... should I start with PHP 5.2 for now and see if 5.3 has supplanted it by then or should I go with 5.3 figuring that by the time it is done it will be the standard?

Would look forward to any input

Re: PHP Version Requirements - October 2010

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:44 am
by Weirdan
I'd start with 5.3. In a year there would be likely 5.4 available already. PHP release cycle should be much faster since php 6 branch was killed.

Re: PHP Version Requirements - October 2010

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:23 am
by alex.barylski
PHP 6 branch was killed?

Re: PHP Version Requirements - October 2010

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:18 pm
by Weirdan
PCSpectra wrote:PHP 6 branch was killed?
Yep. First it stopped being 'the trunk' (March, this year. If you want some drama, read this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/60062 and this post: http://pooteeweet.org/blog/1689) and now it's not even in branches: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/

Re: PHP Version Requirements - October 2010

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:16 pm
by Zyxist
Hmmm... quite interesting news. I think it may actually be true - "trunk" has been "resurrected" for PHP 5.3 branch, and the unicode experiment has its own branch, where nothing's going on for last 7 months.

Anyway, if this is a large project, you need a lot of time to make it actually work which means that by that time PHP 5.3 will be even more popular than it is now. Personally, I stopped writing for PHP 5.2 about half a year ago and I'm fine.