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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Derick Rethans wrote:
> Ladies, Gentlemen, Kings and Princesses,
> 
> With the nice PHP 5 / PHP 6 unicode semantics thread under way I am 
> trying to gauge what people feel about dropping support for PHP 4 at the 
> end of this year. That does not mean that we will not fix security 
> issues, we have to as the install base is too large, but that would be 
> the only thing that would warrant a new release. I already sort of 
> mentioned this on april 1st, but I think we should come with a slightly 
> more official statement. Your votes please (only -1 and +1 are 
> allowed)!

I'm breaking your vote only rule.  I don't really understand what
dropping support means if we will still release security fixes.  That's
the mode we have been in for at least a year, so what would change at
the end of the year?

Dropping support to me means PHP 4 becomes like PHP 3.  No new releases
for any reason, and I don't think we can realistically do that yet.
Saying we are dropping support and then continuing on with the status
quo seems odd to me.

-Rasmus