Re: RIP PHP 4?
| From: | Pierre | Date: | Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:11:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RIP PHP 4? | ||
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On 7/10/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote: On 7/9/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:It is perfect, well done :) Merci! --PierreOn Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote:First thanks for the patch! I changed the first two paragraphs to: <p> Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued. </p> <p> Hereby the PHP development team announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. In case security issues might arise after this date, we will consider making security-only releases up to 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5. </p> I think that reads better.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).The attached patch mentions the above. As you can see, the idea is to release this on the 13th, 3 years after php 5 was released for this first time.