PHP 5.3 for Lucid

[Adam Conrad]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:58:35PM -0500, Mathias Gug wrote:
> 
> Do you have reference/link to where upstream states the support
> lifetime of 5.3?

Unless thing have changed since I was working on it, upstream never
makes formal lifecycle commitments, but my experience from years of
working on PHP in Debian, Ubuntu, and upstream is that significantly
less effort goes into backporting and maintaining old branches after
the current one is considered mature and widely-deployed.

One can't say for sure how long 5.3.x will survive upstream before they
release a 5.4 (or 6.0), but given the focus on 6.x, I would expect 5.3
to survive a few years, at least.  Either way, it's going to live on
with upstream support much longer than 5.2 will.

... Adam