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Originally Posted by percepts  I think the gain si that PHP4 is being chopped . |
That sounds like I sold you a house, now I am selling another one: if you dont buy this new one I will blast your old one into pieces - and that's the benefit of getting a new house!
On another note, I have in fact been running osc shops with php5 (v5.20) on local server for the past one year or so, with register globals all on, and have not noticed any problem although these are not real since you dont have the time to run through every corners of the code like on a live online shop. I do not recognise any need of those so called php5 fixes nor the shared ssl not available on php5 issue (I do have a couple of osc shops currently running on php5 (v5.20) live and they all use shared ssl for the checkout process). The point here is oscommerce was developed for php4 and before php5 was developed, and so were osc's thousands of contribs/add ons, of which I have only used a limited number so far. Its fair to say the php team has been doing a good job for backward compatibility so far. It may also be fair to say you dont know it for sure whats in the mind of these guys for the future: they are now already talking about php6.
One not so relevant 'upgrade' example: Filezilla 3. if you want to get a copy of Filezilla now, you are offered v3. The problem is, newest version it may be, it wont allow you to right click a file to edit it, whereas v2 would give you this convenience. To me v3 is simply useless.