[TYPO3-ect] lib: Before going to beta

[Robert Lemke]

Am 12.07.2007 um 15:41 schrieb Daniel Brüßler:

>>> (...) You want to force them all do switch to
>>> php5 only because Typo3 4.2 drops support for php4?
>>
>> (...) php4 code and thus all versions
>> of TYPO3 and all extensions run on php5. It just doesn't work the  
>> other
>> way around. (...)
>
> I read somewhere on php.net that the php-developers don't WANT to  
> have 3
> developing-branches what are very different in some cases, and want to
> stop the 4-branch. That's the reason - and a very good reason in my
> eyes. In the moment: 4, 5, 6

According PHP internals there won't be support for PHP4 after this  
year (yet unpublished announcement):

> Hereby the PHP development team 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.

Considering that TYPO3 5.0 requires PHP6 we should really get rid of  
PHP4 ASAP ...

robert
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