when will support for php 4 last?

20 years ago by Mikael Fern — view source — reply

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hello internals,
so sorry if this has been discussed before. i've searched my
internals@phparchive but found no relevant context.

i notice there are 637 open bugs for php 4 (from the last mail i got)
including feature requests. there are also hundreds of open bugs for php 5.
since the php 6 is on the way to go, i want to ask about the support for php
4, the time it will be officially be in history.

is there any plan after 4.4 branch releases? or maybe this is the last
branch for php 4?

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20 years ago by Jani Taskinen — view source — reply

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i notice there are 637 open bugs for php 4 (from the last mail i got)
including feature requests. there are also hundreds of open bugs for php 5.

 Actually there are 28 open bugs marked only for PHP 4.
 There are 106 open bugs marked for PHP 5, of which about 80% are also
 found in PHP 4. So really, count of open bugs for PHP 4 is about 100.

 Feature/change requests are not bugs.

since the php 6 is on the way to go, i want to ask about the support for php
4, the time it will be officially be in history.

 If you would ask only me, the support has already ended.
 If bug is only found in PHP 4, I don't care. But that's just me.

 Derick will propably support PHP 4 until PHP 6 is out. :)

is there any plan after 4.4 branch releases? or maybe this is the last
branch for php 4?

 AFAICT, 4.4 will be the last of PHP 4 branches. There will be no new
 features in PHP 4. Most of the active developers concentrate on PHP 5 and/or 6.

 --Jani

20 years ago by Mikael Fern — view source — reply

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hello jani,
thanks for the info. yeah, the feature requests shouldn't be considered bugs
but it's just what is in the mail.. :)

also, outside of lxr.php.net http://lxr.php.net, is there any place that
stores more readable documentation about the code?

regards,

i notice there are 637 open bugs for php 4 (from the last mail i got)
including feature requests. there are also hundreds of open bugs for php

Actually there are 28 open bugs marked only for PHP 4.
There are 106 open bugs marked for PHP 5, of which about 80% are also
found in PHP 4. So really, count of open bugs for PHP 4 is about 100.

Feature/change requests are not bugs.

since the php 6 is on the way to go, i want to ask about the support for
php
4, the time it will be officially be in history.

If you would ask only me, the support has already ended.
If bug is only found in PHP 4, I don't care. But that's just me.

Derick will propably support PHP 4 until PHP 6 is out. :)

is there any plan after 4.4 branch releases? or maybe this is the last
branch for php 4?

AFAICT, 4.4 will be the last of PHP 4 branches. There will be no new
features in PHP 4. Most of the active developers concentrate on PHP 5
and/or 6.

--Jani

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