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Biggest change? - Drop Windows XP and 2003 support
by thejosh 13y ago
Biggest change?
- Drop Windows XP and 2003 support
- masklinn 13y agoAnd PHP finally gets finally, I guess.
- dave1010uk 13y agoMost interesting things for me: * PHP is getting the yield keyword (i.e. generators and coroutines), which many other languages have had for a while. * A sensible and simple built-in password hashing API * Error when using the deprecated mysql extension, which should hopefully get more people moving to PDO (e.g. WordPress: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21663 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21663 )
- doppel 13y agoFor the last one, won't people just move to the mysqli_* function group instead? It's almost identical API-wise.
- shirederby 13y agoLine 11 is "Added simplified password hashing API"
- rmccue 13y agoI'm trying to push for that WordPress ticket, but it's unlikely that we'll get any significant traction for a while. The database class in WP (apart from being fairly horrible) is a huge component to make major changes to like that, and we have to consider backwards compatibility. Here's hoping it gets merged in the next 5 major releases. I'm not holding my breath.
- coldtea 13y agoOnly if you're using them in the first place. Most people deploy in Linux. Hence, totally irrelevant for them.
- thejosh 13y agoDeploy yes, but not develop with. Most people don't really use virtual machines (vagrant and friends) if they have XP.
- coldtea 13y agoI would say that people who develop on XP are even fewer than those who deploy on XP. It's a 12 year old OS -- surely they have moved to Vista, 7 or 8 by now.
- Jeremy1026 13y agoYou would think, my employer is still running XP on the developers machines, with no plan on an upgrade in the near future.
- coldtea 13y agoRun, don't walk (if you can).