Is there any plans to establish a platform change from perl cgi to a fully functional PHP version? I would think going to php would be a far better solution with more flexibility in development.
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I have asked Anil this very question, and got back a pretty good reason for "no." At least at the time ;)
Moving from Perl to PHP would introduce such a huge amount of bugs of its own. That was the gist of what he told me. It makes sense. Which would you rather have, improvements to MT or a new version of MT in PHP that has no new features?
too bad... because there is more opportunities for open source from the php side of development.
I might also mention the amount of plugins for MT that would cease to function were it re-written in php.
I've resisted this long, but seriously, Pixelwm. What exactly are you basing these claims of more opportunities and greater flexibility on?
While I suspect this is a troll...
The simple reason is that it would do nothing, except make a release that breaks everything just so that PHP fanbois can have fun.
If 6A were to rebuild in any language, it would be either Ruby or Python, as those two languages are far superior to PHP in every respect, and can go toe-to-toe with Perl on features.
Any remotely competent developer can learn enough Perl to write Movable Type plugins and extensions. The APIs are far better written than any of that crap that the PHP developers call their standard API; if you work in Java or .NET development PHP will be enough to make you want to vomit whenever you get into non-trivial work.