It seems that none of the current major Linux distros provide PHP5
binary installation packages. By major I mean, RedHat, Fedora (it
will be in F4 when released), Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, possibly
others. Seriously, none have standard PHP5 packages, even optional
ones. Does no-one use PHP5??? It's not exactly bleeding edge, having
made a final release nearly a year ago.
I'm trying to set up an automatable installation system for such
evident rarities as RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, and I just can't find
anything workable. Even php4 binaries are rare (especially ones with
flexible options including things like pcntl). Perl is massively
supported, with binaries for hundreds of extensions widely available.
Why does PHP get such second-rate treatment? Is it particularly hard
to build packages for?
I'm quite used to building PHP5 from source, but it's not the most
elegant way of deploying things. The PHP download page says "Most
Linux distributions come with PHP these days, so if you do not want
to compile your own, go to your distribution's download site.", but
that's no use if no-one actually provides them for current releases.
Even in the various rpm repositories PHP5 is a rare beast - for
example rpmforge's members don't include it. rpmbone provides some
very basic rpms, but they suffer from dependency problems (even when
accessed via apt-get).
Any other ideas?
Marcus
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