SquirrelMail Development

Fredrik Jervfors | 15 Mar 2012 11:53

Drop support for PHP4

Hi.

The fifth project goal states: "SquirrelMail will maintain an architecture
that will flex to the needs of a variety of system administrators, server
configurations, and web browsers while maintaining efficiency and speed."
[1]

It's this goal that has kept us at keeping support for PHP 4 for a long
time. Personally I don't want to bother with PHP 4 anymore and I don't
have any way to test my code for that platform. I haven't looked at all
distributions, but:

The oldest version supported by the PHP team is 5.3.10. [2]
The oldest version in Debian is 5.2.6. [3]
The oldest version in Ubuntu is 5.2.4. [4]

I wasn't able to find any recent reports about market shares, so I don't
know anything about versions in practical use.

According to our documentation, we're supporting PHP 4.1.0. [5]
What should our supported version be? I'm personally voting for 5.2.4
unless anyone of you can find a major distro that has lower standards.
I don't get any good arguments here, I'm going to change all code I touch
to PHP 5.2.

Objections? Comments?

Sincerely,
Fredrik

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Paul Lesniewski | 15 Mar 2012 20:53

Re: Drop support for PHP4

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Fredrik Jervfors
<jervfors <at> squirrelmail.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The fifth project goal states: "SquirrelMail will maintain an architecture
> that will flex to the needs of a variety of system administrators, server
> configurations, and web browsers while maintaining efficiency and speed."
> [1]
>
> It's this goal that has kept us at keeping support for PHP 4 for a long
> time. Personally I don't want to bother with PHP 4 anymore and I don't
> have any way to test my code for that platform. I haven't looked at all
> distributions, but:
>
> The oldest version supported by the PHP team is 5.3.10. [2]
> The oldest version in Debian is 5.2.6. [3]
> The oldest version in Ubuntu is 5.2.4. [4]
>
> I wasn't able to find any recent reports about market shares, so I don't
> know anything about versions in practical use.
>
> According to our documentation, we're supporting PHP 4.1.0. [5]
> What should our supported version be? I'm personally voting for 5.2.4
> unless anyone of you can find a major distro that has lower standards.
> I don't get any good arguments here, I'm going to change all code I touch
> to PHP 5.2.
>
> Objections? Comments?

Yes, I object.  RedHat still provides a version labeled 5.1.6 for

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David Severance | 15 Mar 2012 21:15

Re: Drop support for PHP4

On 3/15/2012 12:53 PM, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> Yes, I object.  RedHat still provides a version labeled 5.1.6 for
> RHEL5 (although it probably has a lot of newer patches, but it's still
> based on 5.1).

You can opt to load php 5.3 instead of the default php 5.1 series in 
RHEL5. This is what we do since everything else we use wants to see at 
least php 5.2 or better. Seeing as RHEL4 is end of life there is no need 
for php 4 support if you are using a current RHEL release.

David

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Thijs Kinkhorst | 22 Mar 2012 09:20

Re: Drop support for PHP4

On Thu, March 15, 2012 20:53, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Fredrik Jervfors
> <jervfors <at> squirrelmail.org> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> The fifth project goal states: "SquirrelMail will maintain an
>> architecture
>> that will flex to the needs of a variety of system administrators,
>> server
>> configurations, and web browsers while maintaining efficiency and
>> speed."
>> [1]
>>
>> It's this goal that has kept us at keeping support for PHP 4 for a long
>> time. Personally I don't want to bother with PHP 4 anymore and I don't
>> have any way to test my code for that platform. I haven't looked at all
>> distributions, but:
>>
>> The oldest version supported by the PHP team is 5.3.10. [2]
>> The oldest version in Debian is 5.2.6. [3]
>> The oldest version in Ubuntu is 5.2.4. [4]
>>
>> I wasn't able to find any recent reports about market shares, so I don't
>> know anything about versions in practical use.
>>
>> According to our documentation, we're supporting PHP 4.1.0. [5]
>> What should our supported version be? I'm personally voting for 5.2.4
>> unless anyone of you can find a major distro that has lower standards.
>> I don't get any good arguments here, I'm going to change all code I
>> touch

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