Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Suprising Trend with PHP

PHP is central to a lot of things. I see it used and use it in Nextcloud, WordPress, and a ton of other services. I also find that products like Nextcloud are very version sensitive. For instance, a recent update to Nextcloud tells users that they need 7.3, and in order to get that we have to go to add a repo (PPA) to allow that version to be installed. I find then with this latest update Nextcloud that when 7.4 is installed that Nextcloud update fails.

In another situation I tried to install 7.3 from where I got the 7.3 before (the PPA mentioned above) and found that I couldn’t install it, that it insisted on 7.4. From the paragraph above the PPA had 7.3 now it appears to only have PHP 7.4.

How come these developers and the maintainer of the PPA haven’t been called out (respectfully) to get them to understand the impact of them doing this? Not everyone is an administrator capable of even determining what I outlined above. For them it is hours upon hours of work trying to figure it out.

I don’t understand the imperative nature of PHP 7.4. Was 7.3 a bug ridden insecure product or was this just a point (.) release, and if so why is it being released so quickly and why is does it appear to be incompatible with services that supported 7.3?

I guess I’m venting here, but it would be nice that these developers understand the impact of putting out incompatible versions of their product at the point (.) release level.

Maybe I’m wrong?

submitted by /u/jdblaich
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