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From: Juergen Hoetzel <gentoo@×××××××.info>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP5 Unstable ?
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:57:39
Message-Id: 20050424175702.GA11337@h5331.serverkompetenz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP5 Unstable ? by Casey Allen Shobe - SeattleServer Mailing Lists
1 On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:43:10PM +0000, Casey Allen Shobe - SeattleServer Mailing Lists wrote:
2 > On Friday 22 April 2005 23:26, Omer Cohen wrote:
3 > > I've been working with it since it came out.
4 > >
5 > > And I made big projects with more then a few classes and objects and it all
6 > > worked fine, I didn't have any problems with it.
7 > > It's not like a group of 100 people from microsoft tested it and said it's
8 > > ok, the entire community of PHP developers agreed it's alright and aprooved
9 > > it.
10 > > we're talking about one of the biggest OC communities.
11 > >
12 > > I believe it's stable enough to get marked as stable on the portage tree.
13 > >
14 > > Regarding the remark of not overriding the system, what I ment is that I
15 > > there's no reason to manualy unmask a stable product..
16 >
17 > I strongly agree. We actually lost a client recently because we adhere to the
18 > stable tree of Gentoo but our PHP was too dated for them (they wanted PHP
19 > 5.x).
20 5.x is in portage since many months. Just use keywords. Just
21 customize. Even brand-new Redhat Enterprise 4.0 provides 4.3.9-x only.
22
23
24 funnily enough the PHP Guys recommended Apache 1.3 only for a long time.
25
26 Jürgen
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Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP5 Unstable ? Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@g.o>