On 15 November 2011 21:42, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:58 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I appreciate the urge to the new shiny and to leave the old stuff >> behind, but ask you not to go overboard. In general, any sentence that >> starts "But you can just ..." is probably wrong. > 5.2.7 is hardly "new and shiny" :) I had to hit the IUS repositories to get MediaWiki onto CentOS 5 ... eventually I just compiled a libphp5.so myself. CentOS 5 may be old and crusty to you, but for me that phrase means "tried, tested and reasonably robust" - it's part of the infrastructure I put other bits of infrastructure like MediaWiki onto. (At least the new boxes are up-to-the-minute distro Ubuntu 10.04 ...) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
