Carl and myself have done some investigation into these options.
Porting php55u to EL5 is not straight forward (and I would assume the
same would be true for php56u). PHP 5.5 has some build requirements
that are not provided with base EL 5 packages. Historically, we have
been reluctant to build and provide a long list of requirements and
prefer to build off base EL packages. We have made exceptions in the
past with mixed results.
Currently, we are leaning toward not providing php55u and php56u for
EL5, but a final decision has not been made.
Is IUS php on EL5 important to you? If so, we would to hear your thoughts.
-Ben
On 06/10/2015 01:31 PM, Carl George wrote:
Howdy,
PHP 5.4 will reach end of life in approximately three months [1]. After we
reach that date, IUS will follow suite and move all of our php54 packages
(including modules) to the archive. This could present a problem for some IUS
users, since we don't currently package php55u and php56u for EL5. Users still
on EL5 will not have any options for IUS php packages. We've already decided
that we will not offer any new packages for EL5 [2], but we are considering
making a one-time exception for this situation.
Relevant dates:
2015-09-14 - PHP 5.4 EOL
2016-06-20 - PHP 5.5 EOL
2017-03-31 - EL 5 EOL
2017-08-28 - PHP 5.6 EOL
Here are the possible courses of action we could take.
* Do nothing.
- EL5 users will only have IUS PHP packages available until 2015-09-14.
- That is a gap of 1 year and 6 months until EL5 reaches EOL with no IUS php
packages.
* Backport php55u to EL5.
- EL5 users will only have IUS PHP packages available until 2016-06-20.
- That is a gap of 9 months until EL5 reaches EOL with no IUS php packages.
* Backport php56u to EL5.
- EL5 users will have IUS PHP packages available for the remainder of the EL5
lifecycle (2017-03-31).
The first option would be the easiest for us, but we can understand why it
could be bad news for users. Since we are making an exception to our previous
decision, we don't think it is appropriate to backport both php55u and php56u;
it will either be one or the other, or none at all.
We would like the communities feedback before we make a decision.
Carl George
IUS CoreDev Team
[1] http://php.net/supported-versions.php
[2] https://lists.launchpad.net/ius-community/msg01207.html
_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ius-community
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ius-community
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ius-community
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ius-community
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
