On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:33:21AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: > David Hogan wrote: > > >I agree. I personally would have loved the choice between supported php4 > >and > >php5 for TSL 2.2, or even better, coexistence of both if that were at all > >possible. I would really just prefer to not spend the time to do extensive > >testing of all my web applications to ensure that they do indeed work in > >all > >scenarios. > > > >I find the exclusive jump to php5 quite strange, given the normal Trustix > >policy of not jumping onboard the latest greatest things, for example not > >using the 2.6 kernel in TSL 2.2. I would have thought that the Trustix > >developers would err on the side of caution and if at all supporting php5, > >at the least provide support for both versions. Especially since 2.2 is the > >final release of a series that has always supported php4. > > > >Maybe the Trustix development team doesn't consider the php4->php5 > >migration > >as a major thing, but as a full time php developer I seriously do. Sure, > >people say 99% of scripts will simply work .. but what about that 1% that > >wont. > > > > I am part of the 1%. The jump from php4 to php5 was really a surprise. > We run applications onder php4 and these apps just didn't work with > php5. Migrating source codes and everything to php5, I attempted, was > such a mess that I just quit. So now, what I did was to downgrade php5 > to php4 to have all our sites working.
AFAIK Horde 2.x and IMP 3.x, the stable versions, are too. They break with PHP 5 and I think that the official stance of their developers is "stick to PHP 4 or use the unstable version". Considering the large user base of Horde/IMP (possibly the most popular web mail around), this is kind of a concern, to me at least. Well, not a *huge* concern. Downgrading to PHP 4 isn't that of a pain, but still, I kind of liked the conservative approach of Trustix so far. Oh well, can't complain for the money we paid for it, eh? Greets, _Alain_ _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
