RE: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:26:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4? | ||
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> I'd suggest something close to what Rasmus suggested:
> a) We make a clear statement on PHP.net that at the end of the year we
> plan to discontinue bug fixes for PHP 4 except for security fixes.
> b) We will discontinue supporting PHP 4 on 8/8/8 (because it sounds good
> and gives people about a year).
>
> I also suggest to move PHP 4 downloads to the museum. I suggest though
> to make a clear visible link from php.net/downloads.php to the museum
> and make a clear statement that PHP 4 has moved (I am sure there are
> still many who look for it for application compatibiity reasons).
A miracle, it seems like we're even reached consensus on this within a
day :) I'll be preparing the patches to implement this while I'll pass
by here.
And I checked the museum page views, there were 1.2 million of them
since april 20, 2006.
Derick
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