Hello, Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2012 schrieb Per Jessen:
pgajdos@suse.cz wrote:
I am asking in my initial email, if I may replace _php_ 5.3 by 5.4 in _factory_. If YES, 5.4 will become part of openSUSE distribution in nearly one year.
Thanks for any relevant advice,
The real question is if a representative set of PHP applications will be sufficiently tested in _Factory_ in the next 12 months. I know I personally would not be doing any such tests.
There's one thing I can guarantee: If we keep PHP 5.3, then _nobody_ will test the PHP applications with PHP 5.4 ;-) Yes, maybe some web applications still rely on register_globals or magic quotes, and yes, they'll break. If we are lucky, the applications that rely on magic quotes also rely on register_globals, so they'll "just" break and (because of the missing register_globals) won't import GET/POST values without magic quoting. Nevertheless, staying with PHP 5.3 is not an option! Upstream won't support it forever, and I doubt Petr wants to maintain it without upstream support. (And the worst thing that could happen is that we have to do a PHP version update as maintenance release for a released distribution.) We'll have to fix some PHP applications (or drop them if nobody wants to fix them) - but well, there's a big chance that PHP applications that still need register_globals and magic quotes _are already insecure_... The above is only about Factory - for 12.2 it's too late for a PHP version update. Regards, Christian Boltz -- [Wofür ist Apache nötig?] Webmin bringt auch seinen eigenen Webserver mit. :-) Vielleicht SWAT? Nein warte, der bringt ja auch seinen eigenen... Jetzt hab ich's. Fontlinge. Siehe Signatur. Die brauchen den Apache. :)))) [Ratti in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org