Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:58496 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 99947 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2012 15:12:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2012 15:12:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lang@b1-systems.de; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lang@b1-systems.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain b1-systems.de from 217.11.58.35 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lang@b1-systems.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.11.58.35 mx1.b1-systems.de Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.11.58.35] ([217.11.58.35:48079] helo=mx1.b1-systems.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 41/E2-20106-153E05F4 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:12:18 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.17] (cable-82-119-10-94.cust.telecolumbus.net [82.119.10.94]) by mx1.b1-systems.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B8BA24094 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:12:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F50E34D.7070805@b1-systems.de> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:12:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120215 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <4F50D607.1060906@php.net> In-Reply-To: <4F50D607.1060906@php.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] discussions, about a 5.3 EOL From: lang@b1-systems.de (Ralf Lang) Am 02.03.2012 15:15, schrieb Sebastian Bergmann: > On 03/02/2012 08:34 AM, Simon Schick wrote: >> It's really hard to make a decision here because you also have to care >> about big companies in one way, that have not updated to PHP 5.3 now > > Such companies are using LTS releases of their OS distribution (RHEL, > SLES, ...) where the vendor will take care of backporting PHP fixes. > SLES 11 SP2 got out this week, finally shipping PHP 5.3 for the first time. They did a pretty good job maintaining their 5.2 product (which is still included as an unsupported option). Enterprise distributions are both slow and stable. I don't think php development should commit to unpaid long term support. -- Ralf Lang Linux Consultant / Developer Tel.: +49-170-6381563 Mail: lang@b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537