Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30520 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81570 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Jul 2007 15:01:19 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81554 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 15:01:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 15:01:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=robert@interjinn.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=robert@interjinn.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain interjinn.com from 66.11.173.122 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: robert@interjinn.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.11.173.122 unknown Received: from [66.11.173.122] ([66.11.173.122:56355] helo=blobule.interjinn.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 3A/C1-50692-C395E864 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:01:17 -0400 Received: by blobule.interjinn.com (Postfix, from userid 2000) id AC2B55AD3DE; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:00:27 -0400 (EDT) To: Vesselin Kenashkov Cc: Tijnema , Derick Rethans , PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <261daaa10707060751i25d3c5f8qee7e5da8de0b99a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <261daaa10707060751i25d3c5f8qee7e5da8de0b99a0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: InterJinn Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:00:26 -0400 Message-ID: <1183734027.12599.402.camel@blobule> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4? From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 17:51 +0300, Vesselin Kenashkov wrote: > -1 > Because the majority of the installation (somebody two month ago in this > list mentioned that php 5 has just 10% adoption) is still php4 just makes no > sense to drop the support. I see (and understand) both the desire of the > developers and the objective reasons for the rush on the new versions, and I > would propose to drop php4 when php6 is out. Then, probably, because of the > new features in v6 the v4 users will consider migration (and then will > become obvious that php4 soon will be and has to be dropped). > So I would vote +1 if it was not "at the end of the year" but instead, "when > php6 is released" (or if you have strict plan to do this release before the > end of this year, then count my vote as +1). +1 Because as Derick mentioned, there would still be security fixes. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'