[geeklog-devel] Dropping support for PHP 4

[Tom]

Your suggestion makes sense. I am not sure how many PHP 4 users we have (an
old poll suggests not too many
http://www.geeklog.net/polls/index.php?pid=php-and-mysql-2008) but since we
are "The secure CMS" we should provide the community with a date first of
the cut off (a posting on the site) and then offer support for 1.7.x up to
that point.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Dirk Haun
Sent: November-01-10 4:12 AM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Dropping support for PHP 4

We've talked about it before and I just opened an issue in the bugtracker[1]
so we have it on record: It's about time we drop support for PHP 4.

This issue also came up in the now traditional meetup of the various CMS
projects that take part in GSoC during the Mentor Summit: Most of the
PHP-based CMS are still struggling to get rid of having to support PHP 4.

For the PHP developers and the PHP community at large, PHP 4 has been dead
since 2007-12-31. The only reasons it is still around seem to be:

1) legacy applications that are "important" but won't work on PHP 5
2) some Linux distributions with long-term support that happened to be
shipping PHP 4 when they were released

1) is not our problem. If Geeklog happens to be running on the same server
as such a legacy application, I'm sure workarounds can be found to separate
the two.

2) is more of a problem. There's a vocal minority[2] of users of such
distributions that seem to be causing all this pain.

My suggestions is that we find out when support for those systems finally
runs out (February 2012 seems to be one such date) and commit to providing
security fixes for Geeklog 1.7.x until that date. That sounds like a long
time and I don't want to hold off releasing a security fix just for the
extra work that it takes to backport it. So I'd suggest we promise to
provide "timely" fixes for such a legacy branch, i.e. ASAP but not
necessarily on the same day as for the then-current version.

Opinions?

bye, Dirk

[1] http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1217
[2] http://www.geeklog.net/comment.php?mode=view&cid=13965

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