i really don't want to start splitting hairs here, but on 2007-07-13 the
php team did the following announcement:
[quote]
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.
[/quote]
so i suppose the support period was announced together with the EOL news
but ok, i get the point that you want people to update to php5 asap.
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Yves Thommes wrote:
regarding the php4 ebuild i was a little bit surprised that they
would drop the ebuild so soon, after all php4 will still get security
fixes until 2008-08. i was wondering, if they keep mysql-4.0 in
portage which isn't supported anymore since summer 2006, why would
they want to drop php4 so quickly?
Because this "stay of execution" was announced after the decided to
EOL php4. Gentoo dropped the php4 support after the original
announcement was made. We're not going to temporarily bring them back
just for a couple of months.
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