Re: Re: move PEAR to PHP 5-only?
| From: | Justin Patrin | Date: | Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:43:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: move PEAR to PHP 5-only? | ||
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On 10/3/05, Sergio Carvalho <sergio.carvalho@portugalmail.com> wrote:
> Joshua Eichorn wrote:
> > Looking at what linux distro's ship with it should be pretty obvious
> > that most people are still on PHP4.
> >
> > l±ñb(kê zÙ%µ=9
> > Šhttp://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=php&pkgver=5.0#pkgsearch
> >
> > Out of the big distro's, only Fedora Core 4 and Suse 9.3 (but not 10
> > which has 4.4) are shipping 5, everything else is on 4
> >
> > -josh
> >
>
> The top 10 list is: [1]
> 1. Ubuntu Linux
> 2. Mandriva Linux
> 3. Fedora Core
> 4. SUSE LINUX
> 5. Debian GNU/Linux
> 6. MEPIS Linux
> 7. Gentoo Linux
> 8. Slackware Linux
> 8. Knoppix
> 10. Xandros Desktop
>
> From these PHP5 is distributed by all but MEPIS, Slackware, Knoppix and
> Xandros [2]. Knoppix is a Debian, so a disk install of Knoppix does
> provide PHP5; It's just not the default on the CD. Slackware includes
> PHP5 under /testing which probably causes distrowatch to miss it. MEPIS
> and Xandros are newbie oriented, and probably not found in server
> environments.
>
> Not that I advocate wide php 5 distribution as a good measure of
> adoption, namely on server environments, but I prefer records being
> straight.
>
> Sources:
> [1] http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
> [2]
> http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=php&pkgver=5.0#pkgsearch
>
Yes, but it is set *stable* and *default* on these distros? I know for
sure that it isn't for Gentoo at least.
--
Justin Patrin