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. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77