2. In regards to the minimum PHP version I'd like to comment about this. I prefer to run standard configurations as these are easier to maintain. In such scenario, it's easier to run just:
yum update
on CentOS machines every now and then to keep things up to date and the latest stable version they are supporting (with additional repos) is PHP 5.3.3. There is a similar situation with Debian, which we use to run it2.php.net, and the latest version they support is also PHP 5.3.3.
So I wonder if you could please consider lowering the minimum requirement to PHP 5.3.3, or at least for these 2 mirrors.
I agree - we recently moved to CentOS 6 (PHP 5.3.3) on our mirror box and have just updated to 5.4 but maintaining this in the future may become an issue as it's non-standard.
Regards,
Chris Burton
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