RE: Under which distribution(s) is PHP developed, compiled, and tested?

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From: Dan Schaefer

> Background (some of these facts may be well-known, and for that I
apologize):
> I'm running CentOS 5.5 on all servers, which only supports PHP 5.1.6
> CentOS 5.5 is based off RHEL 5.5
> Redhat has released RHEL 6 which supports PHP 5.3
> CentOS has not released even a beta 6 version yet that supports PHP
5.2+
> 
> I was having a discussion with my bosses about what PHP release we
> are running on our systems. We 
> have a few applications and packages that require and/or will work
better
> with PHP 5.2+. I 
> understand that no matter what Linux distribution I have, I can always
> download the source, compile, 
> and install manually. My question is, when The PHP Group develops,
compiles,
> and tests PHP for a 
> release, what distribution(s) and versions do they use? And of those,
> which distribution is the most 
> commonly used throughout the development team? What Internet
references are
> there, if any, that show 
> the major and/or minor Linux distributions that support which version
of PHP?

This issue has been discusses a few times, but it might be hard to
figure out search terms to find those threads.

First of all, I believe that while the official build still says it is
PHP 5.1.6, many of the patches have actually been back ported. So
security wise, it should be up to date. Of course that does not help you
with the new features.

Our experience has been that we have to compile PHP for our production
servers. This is a result of several factors. One, we lease space on
managed servers, where the owners only promise to keep up with the
official releases and patches. Second, we are subject to a monthly PCI
(Payment Card Industry) audit, which gives us 30 days after a security
patch is released before it must be installed on our servers. But the
auditors don't recognize the back-ports. They need to see the newest
version numbers.

The end result is that we compile PHP 5.2.xx and install it on each
server in our leased farm every time there is a patch. The hosting
provider has blocked updates for the "official" builds from the CentOS
repositories.

Bob McConnell

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