Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:89676 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 256 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2015 00:02:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2015 00:02:39 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 77.170.89.239 ip4daa59ef.direct-adsl.nl Received: from [77.170.89.239] ([77.170.89.239:28904] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1C/65-55814-D9CC4665 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:02:38 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 01:02:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <90c8ecbc29f8a40a2430306b807a169e@mail.gmail.com> <5664AC01.1020602@gmail.com> <5664C221.9040403@gmail.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 77.170.89.239 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle From: phpdev@ehrhardt.nl (Jan Ehrhardt) Stanislav Malyshev in php.internals (Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:17:53 -0800): >Hi! > >> Giving everyone until the end of 2017 to update their servers is more >> than sufficient. > >Sufficient for what? It is a hard fact that people still run 5.3 >version. In fact, 2/3 of sites run EOLed versions. I know why *we* are still running PHP 5.3 for some sites: they are Drupal6 sites. Last time we checked it, PHP 5.4 gave all kinds of warnings with Drupal6 and PHP 5.3 did not. Legacy sites? Yes, but not that much. We had been waiting for Drupal8 to upgrade, but Drupal8 was postponed and postponed and... (Sorry, Larry). Now it is finally released. -- Jan