From: "Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane" <todd.denniston at navy.mil> > Not being a PHP developer, I was under the impression that many/most of these >packages were interpreted scripts which probably would work fine under php53 >vs. the php installed by default. > I have been wondering from afar about this thread and the discussions over in >the EPEL list, if someone could create a meta rpm that required php53 and >provided php (and similar for php-mysql & php-snmp) and have the system >continue to work. This is of course under the assumptions of: > a. the packages are interpreted scripts > b. the syntax has only added, and not changed or removed functionality since >the stock php. > > Is this a not_bright idea in the php package world? Almost... some languages' instructions almost never change, others do a bit more... By example, see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php JD