On 10/22/2015 03:40 PM, Juan Bernhard wrote: > > El 22/10/2015 a las 03:00 p.m., Valeri Galtsev escribió: >> >> On Thu, October 22, 2015 12:49 pm, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 10/22/2015 11:50 AM, Juan Bernhard wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> Correct .. but that is not who RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu (LTS), or SLES type >>> distros are for. That is what Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux >>> Mint and any other number of "Bleeding Edge" distros are for. If you >>> want latest and greatest .. well, then use latest and greatest. If you >>> want enterprise, then use CentOS. >>> >> >> And incidentally these 0.01% (even if the number is true) of Enterprise >> users pay virtually 100% of RH income (the last is what the brilliant job >> of individuals at RH is paid for from). Let's not forget they as well as >> us have families to support. >> >> Valeri > > Im not saying that they must remove this package, but they also should > include the newer version. I use freebsd (and its not a toy distro like > fedora), and you have several ports, php, php54, php55 and php56 to > choose whatever you need. > Please, dont think that I dont appreciate the RH job on this, some one > should support a long term version, some applications needs this, but > very few. > Thats all. I needed to say this, this is the only thing that bother me > of centos, and its a little thing. The solution is to add another repo, > but is a petty that they dont include the newer version on the default > one. Centos its a great distro, dont take this a complain... its just a > suggestion. > > Saludos, Juan Like I said before .. software collections: http://bit.ly/1GXl0L0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20151022/356b6d5a/attachment-0004.sig>