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Date:  Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:32:26 -0500
From:  Brent Epp <brent (at mark) pdcweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:10483] Re: PHP 4 end of life announcement
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Will PHP5 also be included in the updates that I can get via yum?

At 2007-07-28 22:45, you wrote:
>Greg,
>
>A new BQ version based on Centos 5 will be released soon that will support
>PHP 5 natively. Is just a matter of time now.
>
>Paul Aviles
>Nickel Networks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Kuhnert [mailto:greg.kuhnert (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com]
>Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:30 PM
>To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
>Subject: [coba-e:10479] PHP 4 end of life announcement
>
>  From the PHP.net website:
>
>[13-Jul-2007]    Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has
>been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP
>4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP
>4 will be discontinued.
>
>The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will
>continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no
>more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes
>available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of
>this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
>
>  From past discussions on this forum, it is my understanding that the
>current code base is not PHP5 compatible. Should I be concerned? I was going
>to have a look at the BQ site to see if there was a later code release
>online - but the site was down.... (can someone kick the server
>please?)
>
>Seriously .... who is / has / will be looking at this? If there are smaller
>subsections that someone wants to farm out, I am sure there are many people
>in the BQ community who would contribute to this task....
>
>Regards,
>Greg.
>
>
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Brent Epp
mailto:brent (at mark) pdcweb.net