[dev] Reasonable PHP version requirements

[Ralf Lang]

Am 27.11.2019 um 09:04 schrieb Remi Collet:
> Le 26/11/2019 à 21:10, Patrice Levesque a écrit :
>
>> Care must be taken with “active upstream support”; most GNU/Linux
>> distributions support older PHP releases for years after upstream has
>> lost interest:
>> - RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 has PHP 5.3, EOL in 2020/11
>> - RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 has PHP 5.4, EOL in 2024/06
> RHEL-7 also have in RHSCL alternative versions 7.2 and soon 7.3
> (already part of RHSCL 3.4 Beta)
>
> Had 7.0 and 7.1, but both are now EOL
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl/
>
>
>> - (Latest CentOS (8) was released 2019/09 with PHP 7.2)
> RHEL 8.0 had 7.2
> RHEL 8.1 have 7.2 or 7.3
>
> CentOS is a bit behind, and 8.1 should be released soon.
>
> Fedora 29 have 7.2 and is now EOL
> Fedora 30 and 31 have 7.3
> Fedora 32 will have 7.4
>
>
>
> Remi

To join in:

opensuse is currently dropping php5-* packages from its
server:php:applications repo.

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/753018

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