Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
by tzs on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:28PM
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Many sites run an LTS release of a Linux distribution until support ends, and then update to either the next or the latest LTS release of that distribution, which they then stay on as long as it is support, and so on.
Debian 8 (Jessie) still has a little over a year left, for example, and is on PHP 5. Ubuntu 14 is just nearing the end of support, and is on PHP 5. Same with OpenSUSE and CentOS.
I'm not sure what the Red Hat situation is, because the pages at Redhat that Google found that would probably tell me are in the knowledge base, and will only show me the question, telling me I have to be a Red Hat subscriber to see the answer.
This is one of the annoyances with some major frameworks. According to both the Symfony and Laravel requirements pages, they need PHP 7.1.3. As far as I can tell that's not included in any LTS release of any major Linux distribution, which top out at 7.0.33 currently, I believe.
PS: interesting oddity somewhere in HN. When on the "reply" screen for your comment, HN says your comment is 1 day old. However, back in the thread, or on a direct link to your comment, it says that it is 6 hours old. It does the same thing for all 6 hour old comments in this thread, but not 5 hour old comments.
Debian 8 (Jessie) still has a little over a year left, for example, and is on PHP 5. Ubuntu 14 is just nearing the end of support, and is on PHP 5. Same with OpenSUSE and CentOS.
I'm not sure what the Red Hat situation is, because the pages at Redhat that Google found that would probably tell me are in the knowledge base, and will only show me the question, telling me I have to be a Red Hat subscriber to see the answer.
This is one of the annoyances with some major frameworks. According to both the Symfony and Laravel requirements pages, they need PHP 7.1.3. As far as I can tell that's not included in any LTS release of any major Linux distribution, which top out at 7.0.33 currently, I believe.
PS: interesting oddity somewhere in HN. When on the "reply" screen for your comment, HN says your comment is 1 day old. However, back in the thread, or on a direct link to your comment, it says that it is 6 hours old. It does the same thing for all 6 hour old comments in this thread, but not 5 hour old comments.