To me, there seems to be growing support to requiring PHP 5.2 within the next year, see http://www.gophp5.org/ . Does anyone know of plans to release PHP 5.2 RPMS in any of the major repos?
John Thomas wrote:
To me, there seems to be growing support to requiring PHP 5.2 within the next year, see http://www.gophp5.org/ . Does anyone know of plans to release PHP 5.2 RPMS in any of the major repos?
Well ... We have the CentOSPlus repo ... but that is using the RHWAS version of PHP. If PHP-5.2 becomes "the enterprise standard" (or even important for many apps) then I suspect that RH will add it to RHWAS ... as they did the latest postgresql, etc. If they do, then we will add it to the CentOSPlus repo.
Otherwise, I don't see CentOS providing that, at least not for normal operations. Of course, I would never say never, as we may add it in the future.
We are also not adding KDE-3.6 (or Gnome-2.20) to CentOS-4, etc ... nor have we added many newer things to CentOS-3.8 or 2.1.
Fedora does exist for all of those things ... as will CentOS-6 :D
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:08 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2
John Thomas wrote:
To me, there seems to be growing support to requiring PHP
5.2 within the
next year, see http://www.gophp5.org/ . Does anyone know
of plans to
release PHP 5.2 RPMS in any of the major repos?
Well ... We have the CentOSPlus repo ... but that is using the RHWAS version of PHP. If PHP-5.2 becomes "the enterprise standard" (or even important for many apps) then I suspect that RH will add it to RHWAS ... as they did the latest postgresql, etc. If they do, then we will add it to the CentOSPlus repo.
Otherwise, I don't see CentOS providing that, at least not for normal operations. Of course, I would never say never, as we may add it in the future.
We are also not adding KDE-3.6 (or Gnome-2.20) to CentOS-4, etc ... nor have we added many newer things to CentOS-3.8 or 2.1.
I'd be happy if KDE 3.5.7 would appear in CentOS-5, 3.5.4 still has broken cups support (and other issues too).
-Ross
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Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:08 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2
John Thomas wrote:
To me, there seems to be growing support to requiring PHP
5.2 within the
next year, see http://www.gophp5.org/ . Does anyone know
of plans to
release PHP 5.2 RPMS in any of the major repos?
Well ... We have the CentOSPlus repo ... but that is using the RHWAS version of PHP. If PHP-5.2 becomes "the enterprise standard" (or even important for many apps) then I suspect that RH will add it to RHWAS ... as they did the latest postgresql, etc. If they do, then we will add it to the CentOSPlus repo.
Otherwise, I don't see CentOS providing that, at least not for normal operations. Of course, I would never say never, as we may add it in the future.
We are also not adding KDE-3.6 (or Gnome-2.20) to CentOS-4, etc ... nor have we added many newer things to CentOS-3.8 or 2.1.
I'd be happy if KDE 3.5.7 would appear in CentOS-5, 3.5.4 still has broken cups support (and other issues too).
Right ... but those are upstream issues.
CentOS, by it's very nature, is not patching upstream technical issues (except bugfixes we figure out ... and those proposed fixes are normally submitted to upstream, not rolled into CentoS).
The goal is to produce a distribution that is as close a possible to upstream (warts and all) ... and help upstream fix things with patches where we can figure out what is wrong. That makes EL better for everyone and minimizes the FORK effect.
The kde-redhat project might be an option to get a newer KDE in CentOS-5.
Thanks, JOhnny Hughes
I hope the gophp5.org problem will not repeat in php6. I mean, I would be nice to have a more firendly upgrade plan, or maybe a multi core/version php that supports both php4 or php5.
I agree that the move should be done toward 5.2, and also understand the problem the hosting providers are having and will have when php6 is launched.
Dropping backward compatibility is always an issue ...
Oliver
John Thomas wrote:
To me, there seems to be growing support to requiring PHP 5.2 within the next year, see http://www.gophp5.org/ . Does anyone know of plans to release PHP 5.2 RPMS in any of the major repos?
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