I think the reason for the dependency is the desire to fully support Doctrine in the 1.2 release. I can personally vouch that, as Bernhard wrote, prior to 5.2.4 (or possibly 5.2.3) Doctrine was pretty much unusable due to PHP constantly segfaulting. This was not an issue that could easily be worked around.
It may be that other parts of symfony 1.2 or Propel 1.3 run into similar issues with PHP < 5.2.3, but I can't vouch for that. David On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Tom Boutell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These do sound like nonoptimal features of PHP 5.1, but not > dealbreaker bugs/absent features that make the Symfony core turn up > its nose and refuse to play. (: I am also sympathetic to the > observation that we can't all wait on Red Hat, but again... it doesn't > really answer my question. Does Symfony 1.2 really depend on PHP 5.2? > If so, in what way? > > Thanks! > > -Tom > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Bernhard Schussek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think a real problem with PHP 5.1 is its garbage collector and its >> memory allocation. I experienced a couple of bad memory errors and >> segmentation faults when working with PHP prior to 5.2.4, mainly in >> connection with Doctrine though. These errors were fixed and I highly >> recommend everyone to use PHP >= 5.2.4. >> >> >> Bernhard >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Tom Boutell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> See: >>> >>> http://www.symfony-project.org/installation >>> >>> Symfony 1.0: supported until January 2010. >>> Symfony 1.1: supported juntil January 2009. >>> Symfony 1.2: requires PHP 5.2. >>> >>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16915 >>> >>> Red Hat Linux 5 and CentOS 5: PHP 5.1.x. PHP 5.2.x is available only >>> from the "testing" repository in CentOS. It is not available in RHEL, >>> I believe. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux >>> >>> Red Hat Linux 6: expected first quarter 2010 at the earliest. >>> >>> Looks like it could be difficult to use a supported, newer-than-1.0 >>> version of Symfony on one of the most widely used server distributions >>> until at least first quarter 2010. >>> >>> One can of course use a "testing" distribution or take on the project >>> of building PHP 5.2.x from source promptly each time a new subversion >>> comes out (to maintain the sort of security one has with 'yum >>> update'), but it's tough to sell an IT department on either of those >>> things. >>> >>> How serious is Symfony 1.2's dependency on PHP 5.2? Which PHP 5.2 >>> features are considered indispensable for Symfony 1.2? >>> >>> I thought it might be a requirement of Propel 1.3 but was surprised to >>> find no reference to a requirement for anything other than PHP 5 on >>> the Propel site. >>> >>> -- >>> Tom Boutell >>> >>> www.punkave.com >>> www.boutell.com >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Tom Boutell > > www.punkave.com > www.boutell.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
