Hi!
Currently off the shelf, 5.2.17 is the 'old stable' but for some windows users it IS the only available version. Changing the rest of the infrastructure to
5.2.17 is unsupported. It is announced on php.net. Now, some Windows users, due to certain choices, may have to run this version - but this doesn't change the fact it's officially unsupported. So I don't see how it supports viability of LTS idea.
package! So while PHP may have washed it's hands of the problem, those users who are stuck in the hole still need to be supported in some way. But all that is
There's nothing to prevent anybody willing to do it from providing this support. However, the question is not if there are users with some special needs. The question is LTS, specifically: 1. Will PHP group ever willing to support a version in LTS timeframe - so far it never happened 2. How we know we'd need to support such version UPFRONT - before it's released?
being asked for is security fixes which seem to be a LOT less of a problem nowadays anyway? So support IS just a matter of maintaining availability to it and the correct builds of extensions that go with it.
It looks to me you are confusing the question of "is LTS a viable model for PHP development" with "if we had LTS 5 years ago, would somebody benefit from it now". These are two different questions, and the second one is pure theoretical since we didn't and still haven't and I for one still don't understand how we could have it.
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