Re: Support for PHP4 (was: Re: POP3 Mail Fetch plugin not PHP4 compatible...)
Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alexandros, > > On Tue, February 16, 2010 12:14, Alexandros Vellis wrote: >> ...due to use of function stripos(). >> >> Something like this fixes it: > > Thanks! I have applied the patch to the stable branch. > > However, Michelle is right. PHP4 is out of support. The Debian release > that still has PHP4, Debian Etch, has also just ran out of security > support. That means that the base for supporting PHP4 gets very small at > this point. > > I believe the following is a useful strategy: > 1) Keep PHP4 support working for stable when reasonably possible. I don't > think it's wise to keep running PHP4, but I also see no need to break > the stable branch for it. > 2) On the other hand, don't invest the same effort for devel. It will be > a while before devel becomes a new stable release, and by that time PHP4 > will be even longer out of support. > > I propose to hence change the documented minimum version in devel to PHP5. > Comments? The reason the project goals include supporting things like PHP4 and no JavaScript is to support as wide a range of environments as possible. Statistics still show a lot of PHP4 out there. I believe we should wait until that changes until considering any big changes. To your last question, if the code still supports PHP4, then why would we make a misleading statement in the documentation to the contrary? -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel