@jstsch I'm not trying to start a specific discussion about customers or
software but merely was pointing out that service providers or hosters
would actually profit from both package branches staying available
instead dropping one of them after freeze. And as both EOL dates are
nearly the same it
@ondrej I agree to some degree, as it would be reasonable to run xenial
under the hood, not only because of the base OS but the rest of the web
stack, too.
And as already stated, as PHP5.6/7 are supported from PHP to almost the
same EOL time now, so it's not about "please support old unmaintained
> So I wrote a php obfuscator for myself, that I made freely available under
> MIT license at https://github.com/pk-fr/yakpro-po
> Perhaps you could consider using it
We are a hosting and service company and only administer, consult and
service our customers. Their web agencies or
Maybe it's too late to throw my hat (and opinion) in, but from a
hosting/hoster perspective, that's really a double-edged sword. Of
course it would be splendid, if we could migrate all customers and
applications to PHP7 as soon as possible. But with PHP itself increasing
the support level of
