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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Lester Caine wrote on 07/12/2015 09:42:
> Providing PHP7 clean alternatives with usable upgrade paths is the 
> only way that PHP5.2/3 can be deprecated fully, so any debate on an 
> arbitrary EOL for 5.6 is simple pie in the sky? When will Python2 
> disappear ... now unlikely it ever will? Is PHP5.2 any different? 

People said the same about PHP 4, but eventually it did disappear, and I 
think 5.2 is well down the same road (counting 5.3 as being 6.0 in all 
but name).