Time for PHP5?

[eluser]nmweb[/eluser]
There's a lot to gain for CI's own internal code when it would make use of PHP5's more powerful features. Better OOP, iterators, overloading, exceptions. Imo the code could do with a little brushing up. That said, there's still a market for PHP4 as it seems since wordpress also still supports php4. It's a pity but many of those $1.- hosts still have php4 installed and are reluctant to upgrade. I don't see CI making the leap any time soon.

It's a real shame but the facts are that php4 still has a big share, I can only advice devs here to make the switch to php5 for their projects, CI supports it but just doesn't require it. PHP5.3 alpha just has been released and with namespaces, lambda/closures and late static binding/__callStatic I for one am looking forward to its official release.