Re: RIP PHP 4?

Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 06.07.2007 19:07, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> 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. > > To me it means in the first place that we can add a canned answer to the > bugtracker which would say "PHP4 is not supported anymore, install PHP5" > and close all PHP4 only reports. > > So no bug-fixes, no releases except for ones fixing critical security > problems. > And even that should be ceased either in say.. 1 or 2 years. When was the last time we did a PHP4-only bug fix? My fear is that the impact of the no-more-support statement is hurt when we qualify it with the fact that nothing is really changing. I'd be more in favour of a statement that put a final death date on it which means no new releases of any sort. We could still say security-fixes only by the end of the year and then death by 08/08/08 or something like that. -Rasmus