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.
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.)
And did you see Larry Garfield jump onto the list late in the thread? GoPHPLarry.org!
- Ken Rickard
agentrickard
On 7/7/07, Darrel O'Pry
<dopry@thing.net> wrote:And it looks like php4 may have an EOL around 08/08/08... at least thats
what it seems from the RIP PHP4 thread on the php-dev <internals@..>
mailing list...
http://news.php.net/php.internals/start/30508
Just six months behind the goPHP5 push...
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:43 +0530, Pavan Keshavamurthy wrote:
> Great work Robert !
> I've put up the Go-php-5 buttons on all my Drupal sites and got my
> friends to do it as well :-)
>
>
> - Pavan Keshavamurthy
>
> On 05/07/07, Robert Douglass <rob@robshouse.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after coordinating with Dries I am happy to announce that
> Drupal 7 will
> be able to accept PHP 5.2 features into core!
>
> To celebrate Larry Garfield, Ken Rickard and myself have
> launched
>
http://gophp5.org. Please check it out and spread the word.
>
> <begin rejoicing>
>
> -Robert
>
>
>
> --
> -
> Pavan Keshavamurthy
>
www.bas.org.in
> 123pavan.wordpress.com