[development] Looking forward next year and PHP versions

[Karoly Negyesi]

> EOL Schedule:
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 4):
> General Availability: Feb 15, 2005
> Full Support (including hardware updates): Feb 15, 2005 -- Aug 31, 2007
> Deployment Support: Sep 1, 2007 -- Feb 29, 2008
> Maintenance Support: Mar 1, 2008 -- Feb 29, 2012

I hope we do not need to support PHP4 until 2012.

I hoped for SimpleXML and SQLite but oh well.

Still, I will use PHP5 array functions in Drupal6 and use parts PHP_Compat to keep compatible with PHP4. The speed penalty of this solution is just a function call instead of inlining.

Regards

NK