On 3/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gerhard Killesreiter</b> <<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
David Metzler schrieb:<br>> Yep, I agree that this is problematic for dropping support for PHP 4. I<br>> think that this is not likely to change until there's wider adoption for<br>> php 5 by the vendors who bundle LAMP with operating systems. Redhat ES
<br>> 4 and Mac OSX still default ship with php 4 as the default install. My<br>> personal preference would be to hold off requiring PHP5, assuming our<br>> goal is to make drupal available to the masses :).<br>
<br>As you all should have noticed, Karoly mentioned to drop PHP4 support<br>for Drupal 7. Drupal 7 will be released at some time next(!) year.<br><br>The correct time to evaluate his proposition is therefore the time when
<br>development of Drupal 7 starts, which will be after the release of<br>Drupal 6 later this year.</blockquote><div><br>Well said. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
By that time, several Linux distributions will have released new<br>versions and the availability of PHP5 might have increased widely.</blockquote><div><br>Some distros already include it. For example, on Ubuntu 6.10 (release
<br>last October) has 5.1.6, as well as the option to install 4 if you want to.<br><br>One issue is that some providers still use Fedora Core 4, or older versions<br>of CentOS. I see these all the time and it makes my life harder.
<br><br>Another issue may be that some popular packages (e.g. forum software,<br>...etc.) would not work well with PHP5, and hence hosting companies<br>are conservative in upgrading to PHP5.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Let's look at this again in summer then and concentrate on the<br>development of the current Drupal version.</blockquote><div><br>Agreed. I hope the landscape changes in favor of PHP5, but I am not<br>holding my breath.
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