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Can I ask why it will take so long? I'm working on a medium to large scale project and we will be likely rolling the new version out to our staging environment within a week and assuming everything goes smoothly to the production environment not long after that.

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If michh is working on plugins for other people, shared hosts can be pretty behind on their PHP versions. I just had to backport a wordpress plugin to 5.2(!), which came out in 2006.

EDIT: meant PHP versions, not plugins.

Thats the curse of distributable code unfortunately. And PHP only makes it worse because it's old versions are absolutely terrible...

> And PHP only makes it worse because it's old versions are absolutely terrible...

You just need to put your foot down. 5.2 is absolutely too much, I would never develop for it. Just tell them to stop being so damn cheap and upgrade to a decent hosting company. AWS is free for a year for new clients, there's no reason for them not to switch to something decent.

My biggest nemesis: legacy...

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