PHP 4 - R.I.P.

[alan]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, mbneto wrote:

> Davis,
>
> If you are talking about centos you have two things to consider:
> a) RHES/Centos 5 already comes with php 5.
> b) RHES/Centos 4 does not and will not have due to the way things are
> planned.   Since PHP5 has some issues with backward compatibility they will
> not replace the package.

It is available for CentOS 4.x in the CentOS Plus repository. (Look in the 
main CentOS yum config in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to enable it.)

>
> On 7/16/07, Davis, Jared Scott <DavisJar at missouri.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Is Red Hat going to finally support PHP 5 now?  I had to compile 5 from
>> source and updates via up2date are non-existent until RH supports it.
>> 
>> 
>> See: http://php.net <http://php.net/>
>> 
>> 
>> PHP 4 end of life announcement
>> 
>> 
>> [13-Jul-2007]
>> 
>> Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In
>> those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast,
>> stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be
>> discontinued.
>> 
>> The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will
>> continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no
>> more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes
>> available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of
>> this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
>> 
>> For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point
>> you to our migration guide <http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php> .
>> There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 <
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration51.php>  and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 <
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration52.php>  migration guides as well.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> jared davis.
>> 
>> Internet Administrator
>> 
>> 
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