Re: Drop support for PHP4

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Fredrik Jervfors
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The fifth project goal states: "SquirrelMail will maintain an architecture
> that will flex to the needs of a variety of system administrators, server
> configurations, and web browsers while maintaining efficiency and speed."
> [1]
>
> It's this goal that has kept us at keeping support for PHP 4 for a long
> time. Personally I don't want to bother with PHP 4 anymore and I don't
> have any way to test my code for that platform. I haven't looked at all
> distributions, but:
>
> The oldest version supported by the PHP team is 5.3.10. [2]
> The oldest version in Debian is 5.2.6. [3]
> The oldest version in Ubuntu is 5.2.4. [4]
>
> I wasn't able to find any recent reports about market shares, so I don't
> know anything about versions in practical use.
>
> According to our documentation, we're supporting PHP 4.1.0. [5]
> What should our supported version be? I'm personally voting for 5.2.4
> unless anyone of you can find a major distro that has lower standards.
> I don't get any good arguments here, I'm going to change all code I touch
> to PHP 5.2.
>
> Objections? Comments?

Yes, I object.  RedHat still provides a version labeled 5.1.6 for
RHEL5 (although it probably has a lot of newer patches, but it's still
based on 5.1).  And there's still plenty of PHP4 installations out
there I believe.  I find this proposal to be out of the blue and I
can't see any good reason to compromise support of older versions
unless you actually have some code you're working on where it is
creating problems for you.  Even worse is to change the documentation
to indicate that we don't support versions that we really do.
Instead, I think it's better to talk about code problems that force
this discussion upon us.

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Paul Lesniewski
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