Re: RHEL 7 beta ships with PHP 5.4 instead of 5.5
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:49:26PM +0000, André Rømcke wrote:
> RHSCL is nice, but:
> - 5.5 has been out for quite some time
> - On current RHSCL you can get PHP 5.4 but no stable opcache as neither APC or ZendOpcache is
> offically stable for 5.4
>
> Last point would probably hit RHEL 7 pretty hard as well, or?
Hi André. This is way off-topic for internals@ but I'll jump in anyway.
We basically have always faced this tension with RHEL, where we have a
very long support lifecycle.
The version of PHP we ship in RHEL7 will be considered "old and out of
date" by the PHP community for most of the RHEL7 lifecycle, regardless
of whether that is 5.4 or 5.5. But in RHEL we aim to provide a stable,
well tested, supported & secure platform for customers, not the latest
and greatest upstream bits.
As Remi said we are looking to Software Collections as a way we can
better meet demand for "latest and greatest" bits from upstream. I'd be
happy to discuss further but it's probably best if we take it off-list!
Regards, Joe
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