Re: [gentoo-server] PHP4

[Yves Thommes <doc@foobar.lu>]

i'm working at an isp and we're running gentoo on all of our linux
servers. we have a rather large hosting business and some customers have
their site running on software which is not compatible with php5. if
gentoo decides to drop php4 support for good we would be forced to
either tell our customers to change their hosting provider because we
can no longer provide web servers with php4 or simple replace gentoo
with another distro like centos, redhat or debian where we still would
have php4 support.

of course we encourage our customers to upgrade their applications to
php5 but we can't force them to. the biggest problem are the customers
who use an ecommerce or cms system, which requires php4, to manage their
site. as an example we have several customers using ezpublish 3.x, which
runs only on php4! and for most of these customers upgrading to a more
recent version of ezpublish (4.x supports php5) for whatever which reason.

i suppose we're not the only isp running gentoo and hosting sites like
this, and ezpublish is just an example, there are other cms/ecommerce
systems which don't run on php5. so please, just mask the php4 ebuilds
if you have to, but please don't remove them completely from portage.

thanks

A. Khattri wrote:
>
> How ironic: Gentoo masks PHP4 because of a bunch of bugs and force a
> lot of people to upgrade to PHP5. Then the PHP devs bring out bug
> fixes for PHP4. So if we had waited we wouldn't have gone through the
> pain of upgrading servers to PHP5...
>
>
>

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