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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:11:07 +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 7/10/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote:
>
> > On 7/9/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> > > 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).
> > >
> > > The attached patch mentions the above. As you can see, the idea is to
> > > release this  on the 13th, 3 years after php 5 was released for this
> > > first time.
> >
> > First thanks for the patch!
>
> I changed the first two paragraphs to:
>
> <p>
>   Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In
>   those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is
>   fast, stable &amp; production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4
>   will be discontinued.
> </p>
> <p>
>   Hereby the PHP development team announces that support for PHP 4 will
>   continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will
>   be no more releases of PHP 4.4. In case security issues might arise after
>   this date, we will consider making security-only releases up to 2008-08-08.
>   Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to
>   run on PHP 5.
> </p>
>
> I think that reads better.

It is perfect, well done :)

Merci!
--Pierre