Hi,
On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 17:16 +0100, Anatol Belski wrote:
> 70% done in two hours on such a monster? The last say 5-10% might take
> some longer. Say for that caliber - 3 workdays (port, fix beyond, test) to
> be done is realistic. The start into porting Zend, main and other very
> core was very long and painful, but doing the same with extensions now is
> an exponential speedup.
... and it is done by the person with the most experience in that
migration. Others will need more time for looking things up in
documentation.
> Where comes the number 1000+ from? Last year what I could see on PECL -
> about 300 extensions, about 40% really active. Clear, a number is also not
> in PECL, like GPL'd and so, but 1000? Massive effort is rather a big
> exception. And it's not like one would keep off and amuse himself while
> the exts are dying.
There is a *huge* number of extensions inside companies. Even though
these are "hidden" we still force them to upgrade.
> Reading such stats http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all
> I
> wonder what is with the 5.5 adoption? If that data don't lie, despite the
> amount of work done on 5.5, including PECL, it's not that wide spread as
> one would wish. At least, it's being adapted slowly. Do we expect 5.6
> adoption to be any faster?
The issue with all these statistics is that they can only count what is
*used* not what is being *worked* on. So much is "legacy" which is kept
alive with as little effort as possible. An important factor are current
distribution packages.
Accurate statistics are impossible to get so everybody can do his
subjective "correction" ;-)
johannes
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