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

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Claudio,

"Claudio Strizzolo" <claudio.strizzolo at ts.nogarb.ageinfn.it> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag 
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> 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

Requirement 5.2.x does not mean that TYPO3 does not work with 5.1.x, but it 
means that it doesn't work wit 4.x.
So i have bad experiences with 5.1.x with strange memory issues und strange 
behavior with Typo3, you find all this issues in the php-buglist.

I see the problem with the packages, but i think it don't take such a long 
time until they update the packages and all is fine - may be there are some 
"unofficial" packages for 5.2.x arround.

vg  Steffen