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 -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- 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 are much too fast outdated or have other problems.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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos