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Cc: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>,
	Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>,
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 16:35:02 +0200
To: Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 08.07.2007, at 16:15, Alain Williams wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:46:08AM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>>
>>>> The number 8 also has lots of meaning in Chinese culture.  For =20
>>>> example
>>>> the Beijing Olympics will begin on 8/8/8 at 8:08:08 pm because =20
>>>> the word
>>>> for 8 sounds like =E5=8F=91 which means prosper or wealth.
>>>
>>> Well, then I guess we have no choice but to declare official PHP =20
>>> 4 end-of-life
>>> to be on 8:08:08 pm too :) Now we only need to choose a suitable =20
>>> timezone :)
>>
>> GMT+8 of course...
>
> Which, appropriately enough, includes China.
>
> So: support for PHP4 ends when the Olympics start.

one day porting to the next major version of PHP will be olympic ;)

regards,
Lukas