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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 moving forward
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Stas Malyshev wrote:
>
>> changes. While that almost certainly is due to the poor way that the
>> some of the
>> moves were documented, a version of 5.2 is still a preferred base for
>> some? And
>> this should perhaps be viewed as the current LTS branch? Certainly for
>> windows
>
> But
> a) it is not, since we don't support it. Somebody else could do the
> support, backport patches, etc. - but as far as PHP group is considered,
> this version is not supported anymore and nobody has any desire to do it
> as far as I know.
> b) we certainly couldn't know anything about it in 2006 when we released
> 5.2.

Currently off the shelf, 5.2.17 is the 'old stable' but for some windows users 
it IS the only available version. Changing the rest of the infrastructure to 
support PHP5.3 builds of windows is not just a matter of changing the PHP 
package! So while PHP may have washed it's hands of the problem, those users who 
are stuck in the hole still need to be supported in some way. But all that is 
being asked for is security fixes which seem to be a LOT less of a problem 
nowadays anyway? So support IS just a matter of maintaining availability to it 
and the correct builds of extensions that go with it.

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