-- Jason Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 20 July 2008, 01:22 PM -0700): > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Micah Gersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Saturday, 19 July 2008, 09:47 PM -0500): > > > > > This could be a problem as Debian Etch is at 5.2.0. I don't think there > > > are any plans to upgrade pass that version until the next Debian release > > > which at present has 5.2.6 in it. > > > > > > > That's disturbing, particularly as 5.2.0 had a number of flaws (which is > > why 5.2.1 shipped within weeks of 5.2.0). > Debian backports all security updates to etch, if that was an issue of > concern.
I'm aware of that. The issues I referred to were actual PHP engine issues -- array class properties were not returned by reference during overloading, which made it impossible to proxy to array members with overloading, and the one workaround, using ArrayObject, failed due to a bug in ArrayObject shipped in that version. And that's just off the top of my head. :) I really wish that distro developers would _listen_ to the feedback of users of the shipped software. I know that in this particular case, a number of PHP folk have asked Debian to ship 5.2.1 instead of 5.2.0, but the package maintainers have outright refused. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
