Time to kill php4, who stands up to save it?

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20120409220442.GE90364 at azathoth.lan>, Baptiste Daroussin writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Apparently we are still sheaping php4 and his friends, which is EOLed by
> upstream since 2008.
> 
> on the ports tree we have two consumer of php4, once which seems to be able t
> o
> run with php5 according to upstream website and the second which already have
>  a
> newer version using php5 in the ports tree.
> 
> So if you really have reason to save php4, please stand up.

I see no reason to keep php4.

On a tangential issue, php52 should probably be kept around, at least for 
now. I know of at least one port (www/gallery) which breaks under the 
latest PHP due to deprecated function calls which make a mess of websites 
using the port (warning messages that should go to a logfile are displayed 
on the webpage itself). I think these ports should be deprecated, giving 
users ample time to migrate to newer ports (e.g. migration of gallery to 
gallery3 is somewhat involved).


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