On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- till <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Tuesday, 09 December 2008, 12:49 PM +0100): >> I know that for RHEL/CentOS, there are unofficial repositories with an >> even more current version of PHP. > > Understood. However, for users on managed hosting systems, or with RH > contracts, usage of unofficial repos will violate terms of service. > However, that said, we still upped the minimum supported version. I > personally don't feel that advances in PHP should be held hostage by > distribution vendors. :)
I'm not really in that situation, but I think that if you're paying for it, shouldn't you be in a position to request updates? Otherwise you're wasting budget on something that doesn't seem worth the money. ;-) >> Most other distros have no issues offering 5.2.4. And in the end, in >> order to be able to stick with maintainable software, you could also >> build your own RPM/port/deb/whatever. >> >> There's really no reason to stick with an old version of PHP. Unless >> you run really, really old software but since we are on a Zend >> Framework mailinglist, you can rule that out - sort of. ;-) > > I agree with this in principle. Again, however, we're talking the > minimum *supported* version. We cannot simply specify "current stable" > as the minimum version, as most institutions will upgrade their server > stack much less frequently than their application stack. If the minimum supported version is such a concern, then why is the version raised because of the test suite? Correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked I didn't build my application to run on the test suite, but I build my application to run on the framework code. Point taken, they are tied together and I also see that QA depends on it. So if the minimum version is really [your] (or Zend's) concern, then the process makes no sense. The minimum required should be 5.2.1 (because of Zend_File). Features required by the test suite should be backported in the testsuite, in userland. Till
