On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 23:33, Levi Morrison via internals < internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 4:57 AM Olumide Samson <oludons...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Why not the most recent and stable version? > > > > I'm thinking modern version has many bugs fixed and many vulnerabilities > > fixed, even with improvements that make things more faster and lighter... > > Using the most recent version would make it more difficult for people > on supported but not cutting edge operating systems to build from > source. IMO, it should be buildable on all major Linux operating > systems in regular support using their native packaging system. The > oldest supported OS and version I can even conceivably care about is > RHEL/CentOS 6 (which is in extended security mode), which appears to > use curl 7.19; after that RHEL/CentOS 7 uses curl 7.29. > > In other words, I recommend against *requiring* the latest curl > version and but do recommend bumping the minimum up to at least v7.19. > Unless we really need something from newer versions (which it doesn't > look like we do), anything newer than 7.29 would just cause friction > for people building from source. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > As this is targeting PHP 8 I would say 7.29 would be better IMHO as RHEL/CentOS 6 EOL is November 30, 2020 [1] [2] which means it would be EOL just after PHP 8 is released (if PHP 8 is release on the yearly schedule). My two cents Best regards George P. Banyard [1] https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos [2] https://access.redhat.com/discussions/2399461
