[Mediawiki-l] Discussion on MediaWiki and PHP5

[Gregory Szorc]

On 7/7/06, Bill Karwin <bill at karwin.com> wrote:
>
> > IMO, there is no legitimate reason to continue developing PHP 4 code.
>
> Except that most hosting providers _still_ haven't moved to PHP5 yet.


Agreed.  Unfortunately, you have to acknowledge that MediaWiki is software
that serves the needs of Wikipedia.  It is a testament to the software (and
the developers) that so many people use it outside of its intended realm.
At the end of the day, if PHP 5 is best for Wikipedia, then PHP 5 it is.

The silver lining in all of this is that due to MediaWiki's popularity,
perhaps ISP's will succumb to the cries of its customers and be convinced to
finally make the upgrade to 5.1.  In the meantime, send a non-PHP 5 ISP an
e-mail saying they lost your business because they don't support PHP 5.

Greg