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Anton C. Swartz IV
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"The Opposite of war is not Peace it is Creation."
Don't let sin rule your body. After all, your body is bound to die, so
dont obey its desires or let any part of it become slave to evil. Give
yourselves to God, as people who have been raised from death to life.
Make every part of your body a slavethat pleases God. Don't let sin keep
ruling your lives.You are ruled by God's Kindness and not by the law.
_Romans 6:12-14_
Derick Rethans wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Derick Rethans wrote:
Ladies, Gentlemen, Kings and Princesses,
With the nice PHP 5 / PHP 6 unicode semantics thread under way I am
trying to gauge what people feel about dropping support for PHP 4 at the
end of this year. That does not mean that we will not fix security
issues, we have to as the install base is too large, but that would be
the only thing that would warrant a new release. I already sort of
mentioned this on april 1st, but I think we should come with a slightly
more official statement. Your votes please (only -1 and +1 are
allowed)!
I'm breaking your vote only rule. I don't really understand what
dropping support means if we will still release security fixes. That's
the mode we have been in for at least a year, so what would change at
the end of the year?
Actually, that's not the current mode. Normal bug fixes are backported
as well at this moment. Dropping support would mean that we won't do
that anymore.
Dropping support to me means PHP 4 becomes like PHP 3. No new releases
for any reason, and I don't think we can realistically do that yet.
Saying we are dropping support and then continuing on with the status
quo seems odd to me.
Besides it not being totally the same, I think that giving out a
statement "No more bug fixes after 2007-12-31" and "No more security
fixes after 2008-08-08" gives a *very* clear statement that it's the end
for PHP 4. That will perhaps drive the increase of PHP 5.2 support, and
that should be our main goal as we can not keep supporting PHP 4 for
ever.
regards,
Derick
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