Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep
| From: | Stefan Walk | Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:42:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep | ||
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Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson schrieb:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Marco <markright@gmail.com> wrote:Because "bug fix releases" of PHP regularly change behaviour in a way that apps can break, so the distros just backport the security fixes to the version they have chosen and nothing else.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 :-)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.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu the release that was mentioned before is like 4 releases old!! :oYou're comparing apples and oranges here, the 6.06 release is a LTS release (meaning 3 years of updates for clients and 5 years for servers), so you'll see that one around until june 2011. The next LTS release was 8.04, so 4 months ago 6.06 was the "current" long term support release, so there's no reason to be surprised it has this kind of market share ;) Regards, Stefan