Larry Garfield wrote:
5.2.9 was released in February of 2009. 5.2 is completely retired and out of
support. 5.3 is on security-only life-support. 5.4 is the legacy stable
release.
Yes, 5.2.9 IS that old. :-) Really, get a host that has made it into this
decade. (GoDaddy apparently doesn't meet that qualification.) You're doing
clients a disservice by allowing them to run such an ancient and unsupported
version.
While the statements are correct, many users are not in a position to move from
their currently working systems to even 5.3 let alone 5.4. There is still a lot
of legacy code that unless a few more people step up and help bring it forward
for the many - non programming - users who are stuck with legacy applications,
they will remain requiring 5.2 to run. ISPs got caught out when they arbitrarily
moved accounts forward, and GoDaddy have even been caught by that, so
maintaining a LTS version of PHP5.2 is the lesser evil ... Windows 2000 is
supposed to be dead, but *I* still have sites reliant on it because the code and
hardware is unsupported in even XP. Saying something is dead only works if there
is an affordable way of moving forward ;)
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