[CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

[Juan Bernhard]

El 22/10/2015 a las 01:40 p.m., Nux! escribió:
> Kai,
>
> It is a reality, but when you look at the RHEL target audience, it's not exactly hip devs deploying Docker in the cloud.
> Big corps, banks and the like have a very slow development cycle and long term support is absolutely crucial, software needs to run for years on end without glitches, without interruptions, in a very predictable manner etc.
>
> For the aforementioned devs I think the best answer are the software collections, that or just use a different distribution. It is what it is.
>
>
> Lucian

Lucian, they also include the newer versions. The case of banks, who 
need specially PHP version 5.3, are a slim 0.01% of php users, the rest 
of the mortals, like me, who needs a simple webmail like horde running, 
have problems because the rest of the world is not developing any more 
with php 5.3 compatibility in mind

Saludos, Juan

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kai Schaetzl" <maillists at conactive.com>
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Sent: Thursday, 22 October, 2015 17:33:33
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers
>
>> Nux! wrote on Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:27:26 +0100 (BST):
>>
>>> It's irrelevant in this case that PHP 5.3 is EOL. It will continue
>>> to be supported by Red Hat with security patches.
>>
>> Exactly.
>> Nevertheless, PHP 5.6 is not "bleeding edge" as someone else said. 5.5 and
>> 5.6 are really state of the art and often necessary to install certain
>> software packages or for some functionality. The packages provided by RH
>> are much too fast outdated or have other problems. It's a reality.
>>
>> Kai
>>
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