Quoting Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com>:
On 3/24/07, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard@killesreiter.de> wrote:
David Metzler schrieb:
Yep, I agree that this is problematic for dropping support for PHP 4. I think that this is not likely to change until there's wider adoption for php 5 by the vendors who bundle LAMP with operating systems. Redhat ES 4 and Mac OSX still default ship with php 4 as the default install. My personal preference would be to hold off requiring PHP5, assuming our goal is to make drupal available to the masses :).
As you all should have noticed, Karoly mentioned to drop PHP4 support for Drupal 7. Drupal 7 will be released at some time next(!) year.
The correct time to evaluate his proposition is therefore the time when development of Drupal 7 starts, which will be after the release of Drupal 6 later this year.
Well said.
By that time, several Linux distributions will have released new
versions and the availability of PHP5 might have increased widely.
Some distros already include it. For example, on Ubuntu 6.10 (release last October) has 5.1.6, as well as the option to install 4 if you want to.
I can see an extention to the EOL for 6.0 will most likely happen should this venture happen. Module maintainers would need to be up to speed with php 5 supported versions and there are modules still that have not been updated to Drupal Core 5. Planning when this should occur earlier than the start of coding is a great idea because it can help publicize it with the module maintainers. The real question needs to be will the module maintainers be ready to support such a move? Earnie