Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:89699 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97375 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2015 11:47:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2015 11:47:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.204 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.204 mail4.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.204] ([217.147.176.204:39483] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6F/BF-55814-CD175665 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 06:47:41 -0500 Received: (qmail 14789 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2015 11:47:36 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 14783, pid: 14786, t: 0.0838s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 7 Dec 2015 11:47:36 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <90c8ecbc29f8a40a2430306b807a169e@mail.gmail.com> <5664AC01.1020602@gmail.com> <5664C221.9040403@gmail.com> <56655490.6000108@lsces.co.uk> <56656B0F.5020302@gmail.com> Message-ID: <566571D8.9020106@lsces.co.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:47:36 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56656B0F.5020302@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 07/12/15 11:18, Rowan Collins wrote: > 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). Things are certainly heading in the right direction, but 5.2/3 is still only dropped bellow 50% in the last month, while PHP4 was well down when the actual EOL was proposed. 80% of people were using PHP5.2 in 2010 against 20% on PHP4, and that swung to 90/10 in 2011 mainly because PHP4 sites could be switched to PHP5.2 ... switching 5.2/3 sites to PHP7 is not so easy, but http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-php/5/y probably shows the best picture, with people migrating to PHP5.4 as the next step ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk