[Kolab-devel] PHP 5.3.3 in Kolab 2.3

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Hi Jeroen,
> 
> Zitat von "Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com>:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > It seems php-5.3.3 has made it into Kolab 2.3; I'm wondering whether this
> > is an actual requirement for one of the packages, and if so, which
> > package that is, because the ramifications include packaging a few extra
> > dependencies for various platforms as well as adjusting requirements
> > left and right.
> 
> No, at the moment no package requires 5.3.*. At least not that I know of.
> 
> At the time when I added the PHP 5.3.* line other distributions
> started marking this stable and at the same time it was suggested that
> support for the 5.2.* line would be dropped soon. Actually 5.2.14 has
> already been announced as the "final" version of that branch last
> year. We are now at 5.2.17 so I have to admit now that the switch
> might have happened too early.
> 
> On the other hand I assume that the Kolab Server 2.3.* branch will see
> some long term support. If there would be no further security releases
> on the PHP 5.2.* line in a few months I'd much rather stick to the
> 5.3.* line now to ensure our software is working on that basis.
> 

The former notwithstanding;

php 5.2 will be supported for another 7 to 10 years.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

-- 
Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG

e: vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com
t: +316 42 801 403
w: http://www.kolabsys.com

pgp: 9342 BF08
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.kolab.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20110111/7bb47b0e/attachment.html>