i'm working at an isp and we're running gentoo on all of our linux servers. we have a rather large hosting business and some customers have their site running on software which is not compatible with php5. if gentoo decides to drop php4 support for good we would be forced to either tell our customers to change their hosting provider because we can no longer provide web servers with php4 or simple replace gentoo with another distro like centos, redhat or debian where we still would have php4 support.
of course we encourage our customers to upgrade their applications to php5 but we can't force them to. the biggest problem are the customers who use an ecommerce or cms system, which requires php4, to manage their site. as an example we have several customers using ezpublish 3.x, which runs only on php4! and for most of these customers upgrading to a more recent version of ezpublish (4.x supports php5) for whatever which reason. i suppose we're not the only isp running gentoo and hosting sites like this, and ezpublish is just an example, there are other cms/ecommerce systems which don't run on php5. so please, just mask the php4 ebuilds if you have to, but please don't remove them completely from portage. thanks A. Khattri wrote: > > How ironic: Gentoo masks PHP4 because of a bunch of bugs and force a > lot of people to upgrade to PHP5. Then the PHP devs bring out bug > fixes for PHP4. So if we had waited we wouldn't have gone through the > pain of upgrading servers to PHP5... > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
