Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:58491 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 73844 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2012 14:15:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2012 14:15:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sebastian@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sebastian@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 93.190.64.37 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sebastian@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 93.190.64.37 mail-7.de-punkt.de Received: from [93.190.64.37] ([93.190.64.37:59063] helo=mail-7.de-punkt.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 99/A2-11220-B06D05F4 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:15:40 -0500 Received: (qmail 14673 invoked by uid 511); 2 Mar 2012 14:15:41 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 14669, pid: 14671, t: 0.1837s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?0.0.0.0?) (sb%sebastian-bergmann.de@217.114.76.105) by 0 with ESMTPA; 2 Mar 2012 14:15:41 -0000 Message-ID: <4F50D607.1060906@php.net> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:15:35 -0500 Organization: PHP Development Team User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann) On 03/02/2012 08:34 AM, Simon Schick wrote: > 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 Such companies are using LTS releases of their OS distribution (RHEL, SLES, ...) where the vendor will take care of backporting PHP fixes. -- Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal Consultant http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/