Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:14960 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38987 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Feb 2005 07:47:13 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38811 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2005 07:47:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Feb 2005 07:47:12 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.78.11.230 relay.daleenterprise.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (1) Received: from ([67.78.11.230:53870] helo=daleenterprise.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2.11rc1 (r4431)) with SMTP id C5/31-13857-009A1124 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:47:12 -0500 Received: from mail.daleenterprise.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by daleenterprise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687414DFE7F; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:24:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from daleenterprise.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.daleenterprise.com (daleenterprise.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28854-05; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:24:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.1.100.21] (relay.mustangrestomods.com [67.78.11.226]) by daleenterprise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8104DFE73; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:24:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <421187FF.5000706@lerdorf.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050214162726.03794bd0@localhost> <200502150114.j1F1E29s030012@box2.fiddy8.com> <4e89b42605021417572dc61cd6@mail.gmail.com> <59389e98fc650b5609e63cd2de28d863@daleenterprise.com> <421187FF.5000706@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: <2f506f82a4f8a3e715b97f6b927c66c2@daleenterprise.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: PHPdev Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:24:28 -0500 To: Rasmus Lerdorf X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) MTA-Interface: amavisd-new-2.2.1 (2004-12-22) at daleenterprise.com X-Spam-Scanned: using SpamAssassin at daleenterprise.com X-Virus-Scanned: using ClamAV at daleenterprise.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Anyone against requiring libxml2 2.6.x for PHP5.1? From: info@daleenterprise.com (D . Walsh) On Feb 15, 2005, at 00:26, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > D.Walsh wrote: >> On Feb 14, 2005, at 23:49, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote: >>> Well, that's below 2.5.11, which is what we currently require, so >>> those folks are already out of luck. >>> >>> Meanwhile, Mac OS 10.4 is at 2.6.16, so that's okay. I don't have a >>> 10.3 machine with me here at LinuxWorld, so I can't check that. >> OSX 10.3 is at 2.5.4 > > At the same time, why would people on older operating systems who are > obviously quite conservative when it comes to upgrading suddenly try > to upgrade to the very latest PHP? As long as we don't move the > goalposts beyond the latest releases of the various main operating > systems I think we are fine. Conservative? Upgrading your software on a constant basis despite actual needs doesn't make sense, it makes sense to upgrade software you require but upgrading software you don't use, you'd spend all your time upgrading software and no time left for anything else. > -Rasmus -- Dale