Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
ons, 28.09.2005 kl. 06.40 skrev Mike A. Harris:
>Greg Morgan wrote:
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>>Would anyone be able to give me the background on the selection of php5
>>as the php language on FC 4? What I am finding is that there are still
>>many php applications that do not work well on php5 yet. ISPs that
>>upgrade their web systems find that all their customer's sites go down.
>> By time the ISP has moved the application language back to php4, the
>>customer's databases are hosed. Would there be a chance that FC 5 could
>>have php 4 packages as an option? Could a set of php 4 packages be
>>created for the current FC 4 release?
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>Fedora Core is a platform designed for rapid technology advancement.
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>It sounds like these ISPs want compatibility and features provided
>over longer periods of time, such as what we provide in Red Hat
>Enterprise Linux.
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>Another option would be for them (or someone) to maintain custom
>php4 packages in a 3rd party repositorIy somewhere for Fedora.
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>Hope this helps.
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Just curious: Could this repository be fedora extras? Or is there a
problem with duplicate functionality/replacing core packages?
Duplicate functionality is a relative thing. As long as the packages can
be parallely installed it could probably go into extras
regards
Rahul