On Friday 24 August 2007, Lester Caine wrote: > > What would be interesting is if a group picked up PHP4 and kept going > > with it in spite of the end of life announcement a few weeks back. I > > wonder if the PHP license would allow such a thing. How open is it > > exactly? > > The PROBLEM is that supporting PHP4, 5 and now 6 is detracting from solving > some of these problems. Until we can get away from HAVING to support PHP4, > then PHP5 will not get the full fine tuning it needs. Proposing to maintain > a branch of PHP4 will then result n people expecting all of the major > frameworks to work on it - and WE need to be able to concentrate on USING > PHP5 properly rather than having to bodge things still to be backwards > compatible with PHP4 :( The "major frameworks" have already agreed that PHP 4 is dead, even before the PHP dev team did. http://gophp5.org/ Anyone expecting anything but a custom in-house application to continue to work in PHP 4 by next year is simply not paying attention. Let it rest in peace. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
