[TYPO3-core] PHP version requirement

[Peter Russ]

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Absender: Henning Bitsch
Datum: 01.03.2013 09:58:
> Hi,
>
> Quote: Thomas Loeffler (tomalo.stuttgart) wrote on Fri, 01 March 2013 
> 09:04
>
>> I added these 2 lines in sources.list
>>
>> deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
>> deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
>>
>> and have a working 5.3.21 version right now:
>
> But it is not always desirable to use the cutting edge version of PHP 
> in terms of application stability. The dotdeb version changes quite 
> frequently to reflect the most current vanilla version, but it is - at 
> least in our case - impossible to revalidate the applications every 
> few weeks for ensure compatibility. IMHO keeping a stable environment 
> for applications is the main reason to stick with slow-paced, long 
> running distributions like Debian or CentOS.

Additionally: On hosted accounts you can't just change the version ;-)
Please keep that in mind.

Peter

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