Re: PHP 5.3 - end of live schedule
| From: | Florian Anderiasch | Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:10:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.3 - end of live schedule | ||
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On 10.12.2012 15:24, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 21:08 +0800, Adam Harvey wrote:
>> To be honest, Debian isn't really the distribution I'm worried about.
>> Ondřej does good work, and Debian Wheezy has PHP 5.4 and isn't miles
>> off, it seems.
>>
>> RHEL and Ubuntu are mostly the ones I'm thinking of here — RHEL 7 is
>> supposed to be out in the second half of next year, but history (and
>> my own experience both in supporting users and dealing with vendors)
>> suggests that RHEL users are slow to upgrade. Ubuntu won't have
>> another LTS release until 2014.
>
> All those are interested in are "critical"/"security" fixes. Besides
> that the version is frozen. So for those I don't see a benefit to
> continue providing unrelated fixes.
Yes, with RHEL 6.3 using 5.3.3 I don't see how doing anything besides
going into "bugfix mode" is going to benefit those users, or is there a
6.4 planned?
Greetings,
Florian