Re: [mirrors] Status information

[email protected] (Derick Rethans)
Newsgroups php.mirrors
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 17:10, Daniel Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Derick Rethans <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> From the list below, I see *many* servers still running PHP 4.4 -
> >> shouldn't they upgrade to 5 before PHP 4 is officially totally inactive
> >> by August 8th?
> >
> >    I took note of the same thing, Derick.  There's several 4.3.x on
> > there, too --- including one for 4.3.4.  It's over four and a half
> > years behind the times.  Would it make sense to have a recent version
> > of PHP installed on the server as a requirement for being an official
> > mirror?
> 
> It would, but I'm not comfortable dropping 30% of our mirrors simply
> because they run old PHP version.
> I guess someone should write a proper "please upgrade" mail to all the
> maintainers..

I think you'd find them willing to upgrade when you mention you'll drop 
them if they don't upgrade -- it's good marketing for them usually. So 
I'd go for something stronger than "please upgrade" :)

And, is no2 the only mirror running 5.3 so far? :)

regards,
Derick

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