PHP 5.3 for Lucid

[Eric Peters]

The only thing that resembles a release schedule that I have ever
found is on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Release_history
from that info 5.2.0 and bellow are no longer supported and upstream
has not yet set a date for PHP 6.0

Cheers,
E

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3.net> wrote:
> 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
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