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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl and myself have done some investigation into these options. 
Porting php55u to EL5 is not straight forward (and I would assume the 
same would be true for php56u).  PHP 5.5 has some build requirements 
that are not provided with base EL 5 packages.  Historically, we have 
been reluctant to build and provide a long list of requirements and 
prefer to build off base EL packages.  We have made exceptions in the 
past with mixed results.

Currently, we are leaning toward not providing php55u and php56u for 
EL5, but a final decision has not been made.

Is IUS php on EL5 important to you?  If so, we would to hear your thoughts.

-Ben


On 06/10/2015 01:31 PM, Carl George wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> PHP 5.4 will reach end of life in approximately three months [1].  After we reach that date, IUS will follow suite and move all of our php54 packages (including modules) to the archive.  This could present a problem for some IUS users, since we don't currently package php55u and php56u for EL5.  Users still on EL5 will not have any options for IUS php packages.  We've already decided that we will not offer any new packages for EL5 [2], but we are considering making a one-time exception for this situation.
>
> Relevant dates:
> 2015-09-14 - PHP 5.4 EOL
> 2016-06-20 - PHP 5.5 EOL
> 2017-03-31 - EL 5 EOL
> 2017-08-28 - PHP 5.6 EOL
>
> Here are the possible courses of action we could take.
>
> * Do nothing.
> - EL5 users will only have IUS PHP packages available until 2015-09-14.
> - That is a gap of 1 year and 6 months until EL5 reaches EOL with no IUS php packages.
>
> * Backport php55u to EL5.
> - EL5 users will only have IUS PHP packages available until 2016-06-20.
> - That is a gap of 9 months until EL5 reaches EOL with no IUS php packages.
>
> * Backport php56u to EL5.
> - EL5 users will have IUS PHP packages available for the remainder of the EL5 lifecycle (2017-03-31).
>
> The first option would be the easiest for us, but we can understand why it could be bad news for users.  Since we are making an exception to our previous decision, we don't think it is appropriate to backport both php55u and php56u; it will either be one or the other, or none at all.
>
> We would like the communities feedback before we make a decision.
>
> Carl George
> IUS CoreDev Team
>
> [1] http://php.net/supported-versions.php
> [2] https://lists.launchpad.net/ius-community/msg01207.html
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