[UPHPU] PHP 4 EOL Announcement

[jtaber]

Velda Christensen wrote:
> Walt Haas wrote:
>> Zend did build a big version skew into 5 - there are quite a few
>> programs written for PHP 4 that won't run on 5.  I know quite a few
>> sites that haven't upgraded to 5 for fear of breaking apps.
>>
>> -- Walt
>>   
>
> Amen to that.  I've had to fix many a site that had upgraded to 5, and 
> I wouldn't dare just update a server to 5 randomly.  We're setting up 
> all new servers as 5, and letting our php4 users move to php 5 servers 
> when they're ready.
>
We only started using PHP after vers 5 came out.  You mean a version 
change didn't deprecate old functions rather than break them?  Isn't PHP 
open sourced?   I'm surprised the community allowed that to happen or 
that a fork didn't happen.   With the built in testing, Rails shows 
functions being deprecated in the next major version.   Think this is 
also a selling point to clients why a test suite is so important as part 
of a project.