Re: RIP PHP 4?
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:06:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RIP PHP 4? | ||
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On 06.07.2007 19:58, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Doesn't matter, we still have many of PHP4-only reports which nobody is going to look in anyway. Also it wasn't that long ago: - Fixed bug #38798 (OpenSSL init corrected in php5 but not in php4). (Tony)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.Well, I explained what should change in the first place - no more PHP4 reports. If you're unable to reproduce it with PHP5 - sorry, we can't help you.
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.Yup, that's exactly what I said in my e-mail. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal