My recollection is that Rasmus didn't want to be known as "the guy who killed PHP4." But if the crowd is moving in that direction, he'd be very happy.<br><br>So the 8/8/08 concept doesn't surprise me at all. It is, after all, the sort of thing GoPHP5 was designed to produce. (Not that we're taking credit for this. I think dropping PHP4 has been in the air for some time.)
<br><br>And did you see Larry Garfield jump onto the list late in the thread? GoPHPLarry.org!<br><br>- Ken Rickard<br>agentrickard<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Darrel O'Pry
</b> <<a href="mailto:dopry@thing.net">dopry@thing.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And it looks like php4 may have an EOL around 08/08/08... at least thats
<br>what it seems from the RIP PHP4 thread on the php-dev <internals@..><br>mailing list...<br><br><a href="http://news.php.net/php.internals/start/30508">http://news.php.net/php.internals/start/30508</a><br><br>Just six months behind the goPHP5 push...
<br><br>On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:43 +0530, Pavan Keshavamurthy wrote:<br>> Great work Robert !<br>> I've put up the Go-php-5 buttons on all my Drupal sites and got my<br>> friends to do it as well :-)<br>>
<br>><br>> - Pavan Keshavamurthy<br>><br>> On 05/07/07, Robert Douglass <<a href="mailto:rob@robshouse.net">rob@robshouse.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> after coordinating with Dries I am happy to announce that
<br>> Drupal 7 will<br>> be able to accept PHP 5.2 features into core!<br>><br>> To celebrate Larry Garfield, Ken Rickard and myself have<br>> launched<br>> <a href="http://gophp5.org">
http://gophp5.org</a>. Please check it out and spread the word.<br>><br>> <begin rejoicing><br>><br>> -Robert<br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> -<br>> Pavan Keshavamurthy<br>>
<a href="http://www.bas.org.in">www.bas.org.in</a><br>> <a href="http://123pavan.wordpress.com">123pavan.wordpress.com</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>