RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.4.9
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:17:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.4.9 | ||
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We phrased it that way as we wanted to send a strong signal to people to
upgrade to PHP 5 but purposely later on softened that for security
patches. It was written like this on purpose... :)
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Brown [mailto:parasane@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:07 AM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: Derick Rethans; Marcus Boerger; PHP Internals; Janusz Lewandowski
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.4.9
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm with Derick here. We should push out new releases when there are
> security issues
>
> As am I. The EOL announcement itself justifies the release:
>
> "We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a
> case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08."
>
> While it does contradict one sentence prior by saying this:
>
> "After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4."
>
> .... it's really just a matter of semantics. To end all arguments
> by satisfying that statement, a release could just be dubbed PHP 4.5.
> That meets the requirements of the EOL by making the necessary fixes,
> and still abides by the EOL on 4.4.x. ;-P
>
> --
> </Daniel P. Brown>
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