[TYPO3-dev] Requirement for 4.2 core set to PHP 5.2.x

[Claudio Strizzolo]

Hi Steffen

> 5.1.x is very buggy and don't stable with TYPO3, so 5.2 is the only way
> to do.

I do not know about 5.1.x being very buggy, maybe it's so, I've never 
investigated about it, so I guess you are right.
However, as a matter of fact, Red Hat chose to include PHP 5.1.x in 
RHEL5, which was released just some months ago and will be the base Red 
Hat release for a long time. Red Hat is one of the main Linux 
distributions, very used worldwide. Moreover there are several RHEL 
clones, like CentOS and Scientific Linux (which is developed and widely 
used by the scientific community worldwide, including important 
institutions like CERN, Desy in Germany, and SLAC at Stanford) which 
include the same release of PHP as RHEL.
Requiring Typo to use PHP 5.2 will probably make the use of Typo in a 
very large number of sites and environments very hard or nearly 
impossible.
I do not know if there will be the chance for people to use PHP 5.2 on 
RHEL in the future, maybe it's so. But at present I think the risk of 
losing a wide market for Typo is really great.
I think this item should be carefully reconsidered in the roadmap towards 
Typo 4.2.
Best regards

Claudio