If nothing you used required 5.4, why would it be preferable? Is it just a case of being future-proof?
bug fixes, security patches, engine efficiency... and the forward-compatibility you mention is a good thing, too.
I know that many people are "stuck" with legacy software, and I understand - if you don't have the capability of making everything work with a new version, then you have to make do. (This isn't our situation, as Bastian is actively working on a fix for this particular issue.)
However, if you're not running > 5.3, you really should be.
PHP, believe it or not, is largely backwards-compatible: almost anything you come across that "doesn't work" in a new version falls into one of the following categories:
(1) it didn't work in the old version either, but the error was being ignored and/or another error was canceling it out and/or 98% of the time it failed in just the right way and so no one noticed
(2) it is something that you shouldn't have been doing in the first place, like using a function that had been outdated and superceeded by another for over eight years (e.g., mysql_*()) or relying on a "feature" that was really just a security hole (e.g., $_REQUEST or magic_quotes_gpc)
Finally started digging into Kirby. Pretty fantastic, especially after reading some of the documentation on Blueprints for The Kirby Panel.
Started playing around with it and then moved back to some work. Realized I need a super light-weight CMS for a client and thought I'd give Kirby a whirl for it. Will report back with the process. I'm just hoping that the Panel is both stable enough and makes sense to somebody who doesn't know anything about the web.
bug fixes, security patches, engine efficiency... and the forward-compatibility you mention is a good thing, too.
I know that many people are "stuck" with legacy software, and I understand - if you don't have the capability of making everything work with a new version, then you have to make do. (This isn't our situation, as Bastian is actively working on a fix for this particular issue.)
However, if you're not running > 5.3, you really should be.
PHP, believe it or not, is largely backwards-compatible: almost anything you come across that "doesn't work" in a new version falls into one of the following categories:
(1) it didn't work in the old version either, but the error was being ignored and/or another error was canceling it out and/or 98% of the time it failed in just the right way and so no one noticed
(2) it is something that you shouldn't have been doing in the first place, like using a function that had been outdated and superceeded by another for over eight years (e.g.,
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Finally started digging into Kirby. Pretty fantastic, especially after reading some of the documentation on Blueprints for The Kirby Panel.
Started playing around with it and then moved back to some work. Realized I need a super light-weight CMS for a client and thought I'd give Kirby a whirl for it. Will report back with the process. I'm just hoping that the Panel is both stable enough and makes sense to somebody who doesn't know anything about the web.