[UPHPU] PHP 4 EOL Announcement

[Gary Thornock]

--- Lonnie Olson <lists at kittypee.com> wrote:
> Brandon Stout wrote:
>> John Finlay wrote:
>>> But we have to ask ourselves, why haven't the hosts upgraded
>>> to PHP 5?  It is because, until just recently all of the
>>> Linux distributions still included PHP 4 by default.  Really,
>>> what hosting provider is going to take the time to compile
>>> PHP from source when your OS distribution provides an RPM,
>>> even if it is an out of date RPM.
>
> This is just a cop-out.  Any good web host is going to have
> good sysadmins.  And good sysadmins know how and will take the
> time to find other options.

I find that excuse a bit hard to swallow, too, but then, I've had
PHP 5 available in ports for more than 3 years now :)