Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30592 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 42773 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Jul 2007 14:26:37 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 42758 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2007 14:26:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2007 14:26:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:56633] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 48/6F-34028-992AF864 for ; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:26:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l67EQS4P032144; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:26:28 +0200 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:26:33 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Andi Gutmans cc: Rasmus Lerdorf , PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE5A8F68@us-ex1.zend.net> Message-ID: References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE5A8F68@us-ex1.zend.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4? From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote: > I'd suggest something close to what Rasmus suggested: > a) We make a clear statement on PHP.net that at the end of the year we > plan to discontinue bug fixes for PHP 4 except for security fixes. > b) We will discontinue supporting PHP 4 on 8/8/8 (because it sounds good > and gives people about a year). > > I also suggest to move PHP 4 downloads to the museum. I suggest though > to make a clear visible link from php.net/downloads.php to the museum > and make a clear statement that PHP 4 has moved (I am sure there are > still many who look for it for application compatibiity reasons). A miracle, it seems like we're even reached consensus on this within a day :) I'll be preparing the patches to implement this while I'll pass by here. And I checked the museum page views, there were 1.2 million of them since april 20, 2006. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org