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.
At the end of the day it's a fact that lots of people use the latest version of PHP on exceptionally old systems. Some of the reasons I can think of off hand:
- Because they're new comers to PHP, and the first version they try may already be too 'demanding' for their server
- Because of a (somewhat justified, but not quite) perception that the latest (major) PHP version is more secure, and because PHP is much more visible to them than some library(*)
- Because they want specific features in the latest version of PHP, and the same (*) applies here too.
There are probably other reasons I didn't think about. People who follow PHP don't necessarily follow all of PHP's dependencies. In my experience they rarely do.
Zeev
(*) The average PHP user will easily tell you that he's using PHP, but he's much less likely to know that he's using libxml2, and will almost definitely not know which version of libxml2 he's using. We can't assert that because someone is upgrading to new major versions of PHP, he shows the same level of interest in OS/library updates.
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