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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:34:54 +0100
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To: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL
From: simonsimcity@googlemail.com (Simon Schick)

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Hi, all

It's really hard to make a decision here because you also have to care
about big companies in one way, that have not updated to PHP 5.3 now ...
But instead of that I read some posts from November last year that they
have PHP6 in their control-panel, what is basically PHP 5.4 beta ...

One or two years is way to short if you'd ask me. A major release should be
supported with all kind of bug fixes for min. 3 years after a new release
has been brought out. Specially if it's a wide-spread language like PHP
that has been implemented by such big and lazy companies. Please do not
misunderstand that. Lazy is not meant in the way that they are doing
nothing, but that it takes way more time as it does for me installing a new
PHP version on my 2-3 servers.

Bye
Simon

2012/3/2 Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>

> On 2 March 2012 21:05, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> > Fair enough. Option #1 seems the most appropriate then. The others seem
> too
> > drastic to implement with such short notice.
>
> +1. We can't drop bug fixes immediately without warning, and I don't
> think the overhead of backporting security fixes is too onerous for
> one additional year, particularly in light of how significant a
> release PHP 5.3 was.
>
> Adam
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