[opensuse] PHP4 Support in 10.1
I am rather confused at the blatant omission of proper PHP4 support in SuSE 10.1. Why were these removed, and why would a mainstream distribution choose to remove support for a still widely used version of PHP. Proper LAMP support is necessary. I'm trying to start learning PHP4, but I can't do so effectively b/c the proper php4-mysql package is missing. I'm sorry that I updated. Does anybody know how I can find php4 packages for 10.1? Any repos I can add? Will the 10.0 packages work? -- <html> <b>SAJ</b> <i>a.k.a. SAJChurchey</i><br /> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.cyberarmy.net" target="_blank">Cyberarmy</a> <a href="http://www.cyberarmy.net/~sajchurchey" target="_blank">Major</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.osix.net" target="_blank">OSIX</a> System Administrator and Editor</li> <li><a href="http://www.mgalug.org" target="_blank'>MGALUG</a> Vice President</li> </ul> </html>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SAJChurchey wrote:
I am rather confused at the blatant omission of proper PHP4 support in SuSE 10.1. Why were these removed, and why would a mainstream distribution choose to remove support for a still widely used version of PHP. Proper LAMP support is necessary. I'm trying to start learning PHP4, but I can't do so effectively b/c the proper php4-mysql package is missing. I'm sorry that I updated.
Does anybody know how I can find php4 packages for 10.1?
Nowhere, AFAIK.
Any repos I can add?
No.
Will the 10.0 packages work?
No. Actually your situation is not a problem, just use PHP5 and you'll be fine. Nevertheless, it *is* an issue because PHP5 is not 100% compatible with PHP4, and when you are developing a PHP-based web application that's being hosted on a system that only has PHP4.. then it's a problem. Even more, and even if PHP5 was 100% backwards-compatible with PHP4 (which isn't the case AFAIK), if you develop with PHP5 you have no guarantee that it will work on the production server that uses PHP4. Could the PHP/Apache package maintainers put PHP4 into the Build Service (hence, unsupported) ? What would be the hurdles/issues/risks, especially wrt conflicts between PHP4 and PHP5 packages on 10.1 ? I mean, as long as PHP4 packages must be maintained for 10.0 (until 10.0 EOL), it wouldn't be that much work to build the same PHP4 packages for 10.1 in the Build Service... or am I missing something ? (I'm sure I do ;)) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEig5wr3NMWliFcXcRAqTKAKCuMl66fEtSiqbg+IATBNNiv9XKjgCgoX3N 45hT08F2dUcBYhJT8if+4Jg= =Jpw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
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