Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Thu, October 22, 2015 10:40 am, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 10/22/2015 10:31 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
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.
For me it sound like an example of the difference between "bleeding edge" and "enterprise" systems. The first is what developers most often like, the second is what humble sysadmins prefer as they have to keep something developed long ago running for as long as possible - and without crashed, daemons dying etc (== "bleeding" which always accompanies "bleeding edge" anything). Sorry for venting my own usual pain here...
Add another of that opinion. All the years that I did development, I never needed bleeding edge, and I've done a lot. On the other hand, if the spec said the current version would support something, it *better*, because, sooner or later, I'd find a need to use whatever.
Bleeding edge never supports that NEWSHINY without breaking.... Like the team lead, now years gone, who built a project here in ruby on rails... and was constantly *terrified* when I wanted/needed to update the servers that was on, and stayed on "enterprise version whatever", without current updates.... Things like that are what I refer to as fragile....
mark