php 5 Selection Question Verses php 4

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 28.09.2005 kl. 06.40 skrev Mike A. Harris:
> Greg Morgan wrote:
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> > Would anyone be able to give me the background on the selection of php5
> > as the php language on FC 4?  What I am finding is that there are still
> > many php applications that do not work well on php5 yet.  ISPs that
> > upgrade their web systems find that all their customer's sites go down.
> >  By time the ISP has moved the application language back to php4, the
> > customer's databases are hosed.  Would there be a chance that FC 5 could
> > have php 4 packages as an option?  Could a set of php 4 packages be
> > created for the current FC 4 release?
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> Fedora Core is a platform designed for rapid technology advancement.
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> It sounds like these ISPs want compatibility and features provided
> over longer periods of time, such as what we provide in Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux.
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> Another option would be for them (or someone) to maintain custom
> php4 packages in a 3rd party repository somewhere for Fedora.
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> Hope this helps.

Just curious: Could this repository be fedora extras? Or is there a
problem with duplicate functionality/replacing core packages?