On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Stas Malyshev wrote: >> >>> changes. While that almost certainly is due to the poor way that the >>> some of the >>> moves were documented, a version of 5.2 is still a preferred base for >>> some? And >>> this should perhaps be viewed as the current LTS branch? Certainly for >>> windows >> >> But >> a) it is not, since we don't support it. Somebody else could do the >> support, backport patches, etc. - but as far as PHP group is considered, >> this version is not supported anymore and nobody has any desire to do it >> as far as I know. >> b) we certainly couldn't know anything about it in 2006 when we released >> 5.2. > > Currently off the shelf, 5.2.17 is the 'old stable' but for some windows > users it IS the only available version. Changing the rest of the > infrastructure to support PHP5.3 builds of windows is not just a matter of > changing the PHP package!
There is no reason not to update, absolutely none. > So while PHP may have washed it's hands of the > problem, those users who are stuck in the hole still need to be supported in > some way. But all that is being asked for is security fixes which seem to be > a LOT less of a problem nowadays anyway? So support IS just a matter of > maintaining availability to it and the correct builds of extensions that go > with it. No it is not only about these rather simple tasks, really not. QA, testing, etc. require consequent efforts, from many different teams. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
