Re: PHP 5.3 - end of live schedule

On 12/10/12 8:32 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

Hi, On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 14:10 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote:

There was no consensus, I am not sure where you get the idea.

By spending the time to go through the thread, taking the opinions stated there, filtering out side discussions (like LTS based release models etc) evaluating it (partly subjective) and summarizing it as in the mail starting this thread.

However, we discussed to wait a bit before proposing the RFC to clearly and cleanly define the EOL of 5.3.

Your message saying "5.4 was released on March, 1st. That's why I asked this question now while it should have been done before." which is one of the last from the thread doesnt' sound like delaying for additional 3/4 years for a decision.

I will clean up this RFC and call for vote later this week (most likely tomorrow). It is very important to follow this step instead of simply say, hey, I will go down this way because I like it ;-)

feel free to do what you want.

The delay is way too short for 3rd parties to adapt.

If people can provide reasons to extend it I'm open to hear those. johannes

As a data point, Drupal 8 is slated to target PHP 5.3. Probably 5.3.10 and up, with release targeted in the second half of 2013. That is based primarily on our investigation into what is actually shipping in Linux distributions, and what the market looks like it will probably look like. There's still plenty of places deploying Drupal on PHP 5.2, even though I try to avoid using them myself, including large "enterprise" hosting services. (I'd love to be pushing to PHP 5.4 faster, but the lag time for distributions and hosts is painful.) --Larry Garfield