[FLOW3-general] PHP Min requirements

[Christian Kuhn]

Hey,

On 05/14/2012 10:50 AM, Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
> Some distributors backport security fixes, this will always be a problem
> - it might even be an option for an admin to adjust the checked version
> in FLOW3.
>
> But I'd always use a version as recent as possible anyway. And if my
> distribution did not offer any way other then recompiling, nowadays I'd
> switch it. :)

 From an administrator point of view it is a real pleasure that stable 
version of distributions do not upgrade packages on the fly but backport 
security features instead. This makes it unlikely that an upgrade of the 
underlying system breaks the project running on top of it. This is why I 
love debian as a server distribution so much: Stable means no version 
upgrades, no exceptions. A security upgrade of debian stable never broke 
my systems for years now.

So, it would be great if a framework only requires the first release of 
a package from a major version to run. For php this means to require php 
5.3.0 and not 5.3.23 or whatever, except there are very good reasons to 
do so.

My 2 cents
Christian