At 11:44 23/08/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
I agree 4.4.x will live a long time due to the installed base and BC problems going from 4 to 5. But I think 5.0 can go away once we get a couple of releases into 5.1.x. The 5.0 installed base is small and the 5.0 to 5.1 migration is not difficult.
It's small percentage wise, but since we're dealing with PHP here, it's pretty huge absolute number wise (almost 200,000 servers as of August 1st), and that's the number we should care about. By the way, considering the amount of legacy PHP 4 systems (which aren't going to upgrade to 5.1 or 6 or whatever we come up with), as well as the huge number of systems that come with PHP 4 preinstalled or otherwise unused (hosting) - the real percentage of PHP 5 is probably higher, and the 200,000 figure is probably much more meaningful than the X million servers that PHP 4 has today.
Look, I take no joy at committing to 4 branches any more than anybody else, but let's be realistic here. The branch isn't going anywhere, and 5.0, which was the best PHP version we offered as of mid 2004, will have to be supported for critical fixes for quite some time.
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