PHP version retirement

[Wolfgang Zenker]

* Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de> [190811 00:47]:
>> Am 10.08.2019 um 20:18 schrieb Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>:
>> 
>> Umm this was just the kick in the pants that I needed to switch to PHP 7.
>> See https://www.glaver.org/blog/?p=1109 for a desperation 'I need PHP5.6' hack which I used during this update.

> Thank you, Patrick,
> that is a work-around I also came across. It helped me as well.

You could also have used the quarterly branch, which keeps software till
the end of the quarter. In the case of php 5.6 it would have given you
time until March 31st, and would have included version 5.6.40

Wolfgang