# RIP PHP 4?

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- Started by Tony Bibbs on 2007-07-06T19:46:58+00:00
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## #30564 — Tony Bibbs — 2007-07-06T19:46:58+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/30564#30564

FWIW this is very much in line with bigwigs like IBM and how they manage WebSphere releases (not that they are a model citizen but worth noting).   I personally see no problem with this but given how widespread PHP4 use is I'd recommend maybe pushing the date out 3 more months to the March '08 timeframe to give a bit more time for everybody to prepare.

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Guilherme Blanco <guilhermeblanco@gmail.com>
To: jani.taskinen@iki.fi
Cc: Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>; PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 12:28:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

+1

I thought you're doing it too late. PHP5 was released in 2004 and
until now the adoption is very slow. If you don't break PHP4 support
and "force" companies to update it to PHP5, the reason for existence
of PHP5 is useless.
Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad?

I have my arguments. One of them is because you keep mantaining PHP4
for a long time.
If you had "found a very dangerous issue in PHP4 that could not be
resolved without moving to PHP5", I think the adoption would be
greater. Information is everything and manipulating people's fears is
a good way to force people to do what you want. As long as you "found"
the issue, too many hosting companies would drop PHP4 support afraid
of being hacked.
Ok, maybe I'm divagating too much, but you can't say that keeping PHP4
support is not one of the reasons for companies not update.

My suggestion is that you notify everybody through a main php.net news
inclusion to update them that you will be killing PHP4 support at the
end of the year. It's good, clear and everyone knows you're already
working on another version of PHP. So, why keep mantainance of 3 PHP
versions?

That's what I have to say. =)


Cheers,


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