Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Marco <markright@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 :-) > > Tell me about it... i've had to compile a custom PHP version quite a few > times just to work around this problem. I'm hoping that with the release of > RHEL 6 that 4 gets dropped pretty quickly in the field and that all servers > are upgraded to RHEL 5 / 6 with the help of the EOL annoucement for PHP4. maybe ... hopefully ... :/ >> 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 :-) > > I can't see any problem with going 4.4 / 5.1.6 as long as there is > information for people stuck on earlier versions on how to install 1.7 etc.. > for RHEL4 its already a serious challenge as from memory it gets installed > with Pear 1.3.2 I know some people within Red Hat, I'll see if they can assist at any rate ... Maybe on of them is actually monitoring the list atm *waves at Tim* Getting them to 1.4 at least would be nice. - Helgi