[wp-hackers] Drop PHP4 support entirely?

[Viper007Bond]

WordPress 2.3 / 3.0 / whatever (the next large release) going PHP5 if
there's a benefit gets my vote. Users stuck on PHP4 can stick to 2.0 / 2.2 /
whatever which will stay secure.

Frankly, I think if it were up to hosts, they'd all still be on PHP3 or
worse. But packages moved on and hosts were forced to update, and for their
and their users own good. Hosts need to get with the times and a little
nudge from packages like WordPress wouldn't be a bad thing in my book. Plus
hell, people really shouldn't stick to hosts who refuse to update.

My 2 cents.

On 7/13/07, Simon Wallis <atthe404 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you are not php 5 soon you are going to be in danger of being branded
> *legacy software*. :)
> Unlike Habari for instance. :)
>
> On 7/13/07, Omry Yadan <omry at yadan.net> wrote:
> >
> > great.
> >
> > along with the gophp5 campaign, this could give the transition some
> > momentum.
> >
> >
> > btw: how cool is that, PHP 4.4 will die at 08/08/08 :).
> >
> >
> > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 5 Jul 2007, at 20:14, David Weitz wrote:
> > >
> > >> I think it still may be questionable when most hosts are going to
> > >> switch to PHP5. I think once PHP6 comes out, we'll see a movement to
> > >> PHP5+.
> > >
> > > There's now a far bigger reason for this: PHP4 EOL has been announced!
> > >
> > > [[
> > >
> > > The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will
> > > continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will
> > > be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical
> > > security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08.
> > > Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to
> > > run on PHP 5.
> > >
> > > ]]
> > >
> > > <http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php#2007-07-13-1>
> > >
> > >
> > > - Geoffrey Sneddon
> > >
> > >
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