Why should Zend (or the Zend Framework community) support a version of the Zend Framework that runs on a version of PHP (5.1.x) that the PHP community doesn't even support?
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM, ardx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Tim Fountain wrote: >> >> I would suggest, if at all possible, you try and get the remi repositories >> ( >> http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en) enabled on your server. >> These >> will allow you to install a more recent version of PHP on CentOS. >> >> IMHO the ZF team can't be expected to try and support previous releases. >> PHP >> 5.1.6 is well over two years old. >> > > I'm not telling the ZF developers what to do, or saying what I think they > ought to do. I'm just asking what they will do. > > I'm not defending the fact that Centos is stuck at php 5.1.6 because that's > what rhel 5.2 has. Evidently if you pay Redhat extra money, over and above > the cost of rhel 5, you can get a stack with a more recent version of php. > That stack hasn't made it into Centos, apparently because of some licensing > issue with some non-php component of the redhat SRPMS. I know if I pay for > Zend Core I can get a supported, more up-to-date php version. I know the > Centos developers have a more recent version in their 'test' repo that > apparently no one is testing, so it remains in the test repo with a 'do not > use on a production machine' recommendation. I know that it is possible to > put a more recent version of php on a Centos5 machine using other folks' > rpms that are not supported by the Centos developers. > > It strikes me that there are likely a lot of people who cannot update or > cannot or will not risk updating php on a Centos 5 based server on which > they want to run php apps. Maybe I`m wrong about that. If I`m not, though, > then its seems to me a valid question whether, having abandoned support for > php < 5.2.4 in 1.7.0+, the developers will decide to continue supporting the > last version of ZF that (apart from a few identifiable components) purported > to be functional on the version of php to which non-wealthy, non-technical > centos5 users are still restricted. Its a decision to which both 'yes' and > 'no' answers are defensible. I just want to know what the answer is, so I > can decide what to do next. > > If this is not the place to get some sort of authoritative answer to that > question, please let me know. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/ZF-1.6.2-not-being-maintained-supported-for-php-5.1.4%2B-users---tp21889817p21893918.html > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Jordan Ryan Moore
