[wp-hackers] Drop PHP4 support entirely?

[Omry Yadan]

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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