Re: [gentoo-server] PHP4

[Yves Thommes <doc@foobar.lu>]

i really don't want to start splitting hairs here, but on 2007-07-13 the 
php team did the following announcement:

[quote]
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.
[/quote]

so i suppose the support period was announced together with the EOL news

but ok, i get the point that you want people to update to php5 asap.

Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Yves Thommes wrote:
>> regarding the php4 ebuild i was a little bit surprised that they 
>> would drop the ebuild so soon, after all php4 will still get security 
>> fixes until 2008-08. i was wondering, if they keep mysql-4.0 in 
>> portage which isn't supported anymore since summer 2006, why would 
>> they want to drop php4 so quickly?
>
> Because this "stay of execution" was announced after the decided to 
> EOL php4. Gentoo dropped the php4 support after the original 
> announcement was made. We're not going to temporarily bring them back 
> just for a couple of months.
>

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