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

[Cy Schubert]

In message <CADLo839aXhhAM-uf-eUvEaQpc7b=vTkJt3diLSMn9CY+Wv5saQ at mail.gmail.c
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, Chris Rees writes:
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> On 10 Apr 2012 04:50, "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> The PHP maintainer disagreed on this point last week-ish.

Then ports which break should be removed as well. One of my websites broke 
when I upgraded PHP from 5.3 to 5.5.


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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com>
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