Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Marco <markright@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> So if they pick 5.1.3 they'd never upgrade it to 5.1.4 or 5.1.5 etc etc ? > > Correct, the only time they upgrade to a new version is during a major > release which is circa every 18 months / 2 years. > > I'm not sure when RHEL 6 is due out but am keeping my fingers crossed that > if PHP 5.3 can be released soon Redhat might pick that for the next release > although i'm pretty sure it will be based on Fedora 9 which includes PHP > 5.2.5. Why do I find that strategy to be really bad ? Don't see why they'd pick a version and not even upgrade to bug fix releases :-) Ohh well ... http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat look for PHP I'm seeing 4.3.9 and 4.3.2 usage, aka RHEL 3 and 4 http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu the release that was mentioned before is like 4 releases old!! :o http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian sarge probably accounts for our 4.3.10 usage http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd this could account for some of the 5.1.2 usage I suppose but afaik it's not that hard to upgrade freebsd 6.1 to 6.2 or 6.3 had forgotten how useful this is :-) Anyway if we go hardcore, 4.4 and 5.1.6 we can estimate about losing around 6 to 8k requests a day but since 1.7 down to 1.4 will still work I think we won't really lose anything ... I'm seeing usage of some of the PHP 5.2 people still having PEAR 1.4.x :-) Any further comments or ideas ? :) Regards Helgi