Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:59 AM, till <klimpong@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > >> (...) > > I feel like bumping up the requirement is a good thing (TM), though > (for the love of god :)) you should announce that 2-3 month in advance > so people have time to update. I feel like even though I despise PHP > 4.x since I moved on PHP 5 and even though I am not a CentOS user, > those people deserve to be cut some slack. > > I am not sure how exactly e.g. CentOS decides if it includes 4.3 or > 4.4, maybe a good opportunity to work with the maintainers and get > more recent editions of PHP into their distriubutions. > > In anyway, better announce in advance - not just do it. :) We can't work with them on this - CentOS 4 is 4.3, they have CentOS 6 and it's more recent, even v5 went PHP 5 IIRC They take the same approach as RHEL, there will be no upgrade of versions outside the bugfix number which would be the last one, 4.3.x PEAR 1.7 will continue to work fine with the servers tho as any version down to 1.4 should actually do, so what will fail for them is a upgrade of PEAR it self but everything else will continue to function - I can announce it but 2 - 3 months is a bit long time especially given my statement before that 1.7 will continue to work fine for those people, I could mention that in my "announcement" to pear-general since pear-dev already knows about this. Anyone else got idea where I should announce it ? A blog seems a bit too much but hmm.. - Helgi