[horde] [dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 896d45e5b0173cec34507a71100417e76a7b4a1b

[Vilius Šumskas]

Sveiki,

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 9:34:13 PM, you wrote:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> The branch "master" has been updated.
>>> The following is a summary of the commits.
>>>
>>> from: c05da3d7fef551ac8dd73d41f48aa507f988982e
>>>
>>> 896d45e Doc tweaks
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> commit 896d45e5b0173cec34507a71100417e76a7b4a1b
>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>>> Date:   Wed Mar 14 00:15:23 2012 -0600
>>>
>>>    Doc tweaks
>>>
>>>    We shouldn't outright recommend installing PHP from package manager,
>>>    since many packages won't work with Horde out-of-the-box.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean with that. I haven't compiled PHP for years  
>> just to get Horde running. It's simply not necessary anymore with  
>> any decent distribution, and people tend to shoot themselves in the  
>> foot if they start compiling their own PHP.
>> We *should* recommend installing from the distribution packages.

> Because it seems that every week I have to say "your libxml is too  
> old" and then the reply is "But that's the version my package manager
> ships with!"

For what it's worth; current  versions  of  RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and openSUSE ships
with libxml > 2.7.0.

> Not to mention that Debian ships with suhosin.  AARRRGH.

> If you look at the changes, it's not discouraging installation in this
> matter.  But it is definitely not deserving of extra highlighting/a  
> separate note.  Skimming through the INSTALL documentation, that just
> looked blatantly out of place.

> michael

> ___________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]




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Best regards,
 Vilius