Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Jos Vos wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:37:31PM +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Personally I think we are going to reconsider using RHEL for our LAMP
applications, as we are always requiring newer versions. I realise
you are always chasing distros for the one with the latest packages,
but putting PHP 5.1 in RHEL5 when 5.2 was already out and required by
many apps was an interesting decision. We are looking seriously at the
new LTS Ubuntu out at the end of April, which has 5.2.4, and will be
supported for 5 years.
Comparing RHEL5, being out for more than one year, with a distro coming
out next month is an unfair comparison, but I guess you're realizing that.
Yes, hense my comment about chasing distros. However, RHEL 5.2 is coming out
in the near future, and I was disappointed that we had packages like MySQL
which had a big jump in versions from 5.0.22 to 5.0.45, yet PHP remained at
5.1.6, with no upgrade path.
A difference in version numbering between mysql and php is probably what
you're seeing. I wouldn't expect the two versions of mysql to be
functionally different, more likely it's just essential upstream repairs.
I've been persuing the php website. It seems they have an unusual
development model. Current stable is 5.2.x. Old stable is 4.4.8 (and
support's ended). 5.1.x is superceded by 5.2.0, and ended at 5.1.6.
Presumably RH had chosen 5.1.x for RHEL5 and doesn't want to force users
to upgrade to 5.2, there is some migration effort required.
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Cheers
John
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