On 10/22/2015 10:31 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
Hi,
So, it seems that the current version of PHP in Centos 7 is PHP 5.4.16 however this version of PHP stopped getting security support from the PHP people one month ago [1].
Now, our developers want to use the new and shiny PHP because they want to use the latest version of Zend. They are proposing using this package [2] but I never heard of this repo.
Other than building the packages ourselves is there a more acceptable way to run a later version of PHP?
Thoughts? Experiences? Ramblings?
I'm personally not a fan of the webtatic repository. This is mostly due to the number of users on irc who seem to have problems with it. I would recommend either the upcoming software collections packages or the IUS repository packages. https://iuscommunity.org/pages/About.html
IUS has been a very good/reliable way to get more recent versions of things, and the folks responsible for it are active both on irc and in the mailing lists.