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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:09:12 -0400
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To: "Antony Dovgal" <antony@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
From: davidc@php.net ("David Coallier")

On 7/6/07, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:
> On 06.07.2007 19:58, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >> To me it means in the first place that we can add a canned answer to the
> >> bugtracker which would say "PHP4 is not supported anymore, install PHP5"
> >> and close all PHP4 only reports.
> >>
> >> So no bug-fixes, no releases except for ones fixing critical security
> >> problems.
> >> And even that should be ceased either in say.. 1 or 2 years.
> >
> > When was the last time we did a PHP4-only bug fix?
>
> Doesn't matter, we still have many of PHP4-only reports which nobody is going to look in anyway.
> Also it wasn't that long ago:
> - Fixed bug #38798 (OpenSSL init corrected in php5 but not in php4). (Tony)
>
> > My fear is that the impact of the no-more-support statement is hurt when
> > we qualify it with the fact that nothing is really changing.
>
> Well, I explained what should change in the first place - no more PHP4 reports.
> If you're unable to reproduce it with PHP5 - sorry, we can't help you.
>
> > I'd be more in favour of a statement that put a final death date on it
> > which means no new releases of any sort.  We could still say
> > security-fixes only by the end of the year and then death by 08/08/08 or
> > something like that.
>

Well the initial question was to drop it but not kill it, if there
would be another vote for killing it completely, I am totally 100% for
it. 21st century... moving on.
> Yup, that's exactly what I said in my e-mail.
>
> --
> Wbr,
> Antony Dovgal
>
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