Re: pear is dead on php 5.3
| From: | Stefan Walk | Date: | Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:39:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear is dead on php 5.3 | ||
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On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:17:44 till wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 1:03 PM, Stefan Priebsch <stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de>
wrote:
> > Christian Weiske schrieb:
> > > So we need to find a better way to call those methods, or make pear for
> > > php < 5.3 only, or drop support for php4 in pear1 with 1.7.0.
> >
> > If I may be so bold: Please drop PHP 4 support.
>
> From what I read PHP4 will still receive critical updates, which is
> why I think that as long as PHP4 is "available" to users, we cannot
> just drop support for it. I always thought that is what PEAR2 was
> meant for.
>
> What's the official EOL for PHP4? Is there such a thing? I mean,
> clearly PHP3 receives no updates anymore, so when will PHP4 be
> dropped?
>
> Cheers,
> Till
There are no bugfixes for PHP4 anymore, only critical security updates. You
could do the same with pear 1.6, i'd think.
Regards,
Stefan