Re: Does Redhat know something that the php team doesn't?

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Spyros Ioakim wrote: > As you probably know redhat released version 9 of its distro. > I read from http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/packages.html@� > ͧ�'0#��1 > that it comes once again with 2.0.40 and php 4.2.2. > Not even 4.2.3. I don't know if they have included CVS code in their > release to fix the bugs that 4.2.3 fixes. You can find out by getting the source rpm, and see which patches they apply. I know that they applied a patch to make short_open tag set to off by default in earlier releases. > It has been noted before that apache 2.0.40 and php 4.2.x is not a very > stable combination. > For once more they don't offer apache 1.3.x packages.... > Maybe they have tested apache 2 with php 4.2.2 and they find that it is > very stable. This is still a bad choice of RedHat, apache 2 + PHP is not really stable at all, and definitely not in PHP 4.2.2. > Can you guys confirm this if you have ever worked with redhat 8/9? I work with RH 7.2/8, but I always compile apache and PHP myself. I suggest you do the same. > Apart from that it seems that their version came out the worst moment > ever... > They have already released errata for sendmail and samba. > So far I am reading that it isn't really a must upgrade since it offers > mostly graphical improvements and nothing exciting. I always say to myself: never use a .0 release... I think that's true here too. Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------