Re: RIP PHP 4?

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? 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. -Rasmus