On 10/22/2015 12:40 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 10/22/2015 10:31 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So, it seems that the current version of PHP in Centos 7 is PHP 5.4.16 >> however this version of PHP stopped getting security support from the PHP >> people one month ago [1]. >> >> Now, our developers want to use the new and shiny PHP because they want to >> use the latest version of Zend. They are proposing using this package [2] >> but I never heard of this repo. >> >> Other than building the packages ourselves is there a more acceptable way >> to run a later version of PHP? >> >> Thoughts? Experiences? Ramblings? >> > > I would point out that Red Hat backports items to RHEL-7 (and we > therefore backport those into CentOS-7 when we rebuild the source code). > > I would also point out that the developers who ignore RHEL then ignore > getting their code into enterprises that use RHEL. Being that those > enterprises are the people PAYING for Linux, it MIGHT be the brightest > idea for those developers to write code that they expect to be paid for > for non-enterprise distributions :) > > That said, software collections is one way to get newer development > tools and we should have more software collections, including a newer > version of php, very soon in CentOS-7. > > The collections will go here when ready: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/ > > Right now only a couple of things there. Will be more soon. Here is a very, very early version to look at: http://cbs.centos.org/repos/sclo7-php55-rh-candidate/x86_64/os/ That is not ready for production, but an idea of what will be available.
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