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Subject: Download PHP binaries
From: remi@fedoraproject.org (Remi Collet)

Hi,

I recently noticed that on http://www.php.net/downloads.php,
"Redhat/CentOS Binaries" link to a third party repository [1].

First, this could be confused for users, as this is not a Red Hat or
CentOS official repository.

Why PHP project (seems to) recommend the use of a third party repository
among others ?

Yes, I'm probably offended because I also maintain a third repository
[2], trying to be as close of upstream as possible, as complete as
possible (ex: php 5.3.17 / 5.4.7 [3] or latest msgpack extension [4]
already there, with more than 300 php-* packages)

It seems (at least to me) that this should be clarified.


Best regards,
Remi.


[1] http://iuscommunity.org/
[2] http://rpms.famillecollet.com/
[3] http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2012/09/14/php-5.3.17-and-php-5.4.7
[4] http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2012/09/15/php-pecl-msgpack-0.5.2-en