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@geniusmusing At one point, I was running these sites on a VPS running CentOS. In order to get a currently supported version of PHP (v.5.6 at the time), I had to find a 3rd party repo. The repo, for some reason, did not have a version of php-intl that worked, so every time there was an update, I had to use PEAR to download and compile it.
(By the way, I don’t know if PHP has integrated that extension into the main executable yet, but if they haven’t, they should.)
Anyway, I just visited https://www.php.net/supported-version.php and https://www.php.net/eol.php … I see that v.7.3.x is already unsupported except for security patches; v7.4 loses support in late November (security patches for another year afterward).
Distros and projects should be moving to v.8.0.x, which is supported for another 18 months (with another year of security patches after that). I’m assuming that there are some breaking changes between the 7.x.y versions and the 8.x.y versions, so I can understand some grumbling from developers.
However, the truth is that #PHP, like its ancestor #Perl, just evolved organically without any planning and now needs to clean up 🧽 🧹 inconsistencies and continue to tighten security. Hopefully, the pace of change will slow once those two things are accomplished.