On 7/9/07, Pierre <pier...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately yes.

Right.

Yes, about 6 or 7 years more.

IMHO this should be done this way

1. Announce **clearly** that PHP4 has reached EOL ASAP.

2. Stop any kind of non-security bugfixing **inmediately** ( well. that is happening now anyway, :-) ) This include marking as wont fix all the opened PHP4 bug reports and removing PHP4 from the version list in the bugtracker as well adding a warning in the bug report form about this.

3. Move PHP4 releases to the Museum ASAP.

4. gave users a reasonable time to discontinue security fixes (no less that 8 months IMHO) also state clearly that this covers only critical security bugs.

5. Fix the documentation, the migration to PHP5 documents are missing many backward incompatible changes.

just as an example.

http://php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompatible.php does not list the fact that you cannot reasign $this and that unset($this) does nothing. there are many others.

6. finally people will attempt to use backward compatibilty hacks like the horrendous and non-working like zend.ze1_compatibility_mode, it is very important to either fix it or remove it ( I suggest removing it) , there are many extensions that dont even work or crash with it enabled.

my $2 chilean pesos.