Excerpts from devis's message of Mon Oct 24 15:18:14 -0700 2011:
> Hi,
>
> I have always disliked the lack of modern packages on Debian/Ubuntu distros,
> I feel like minor are misused as major versions, with an exaggerated fear to
> upgrade. It's like building web sites for IE6 because people are
Am 25.10.2011 00:18, schrieb de...@lucato.it:
> As a user, I would really encourage to include the latest stable 5.x and
> provide to the community all the available 5.x upgrade during the next 5
> years (5.4, 5.5 etc). Those 105 php apps should be maintained or removed,
> not used as an excuse to
Hi,
I have always disliked the lack of modern packages on Debian/Ubuntu distros,
I feel like minor are misused as major versions, with an exaggerated fear to
upgrade. It's like building web sites for IE6 because people are not allowed
to upgrade to IE9, very frustrating for developers and hard to
Just my two cents,
Most likely someone that has a system that they expect to last for five years
is going to set it up and forget about it. So they probably don't care that
it's up to date. They just want it to work.
If not they'll likely either compile their own php or be updating their syste
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 03:36:04PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> I appreciate the sentiments of all who have weighed in on this, and I
> do want to make sure that we are paying attention to the greater PHP
> community's needs, not just Ubuntu's users. Shipping really old PHP
> versions is definitely
