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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:36:11 +0200
To: "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

On 7/6/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> 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)!

+1 if we really kill it. That means no more release. If we keep
release it, it is still maintained like what we did until now (99.99%
sec fixes only).

--Pierre