<div dir="ltr">As opposed to RHEL, where to install PHP i have to install perl? To update rpm I have to install lua-libraires?<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu" target="_blank">warlord@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">"Beddingfield, Allen" <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>> writes:<br>
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> The whole "not up to date enough" garbage from web people makes me<br>
> want to puke constantly. I can't tell you how many times I get a web<br>
> developer who has developed some site in PHP on the latest Ubuntu<br>
> Ornery Orangatan or Pliable Platypus, or whatever the latest Ubuntu<br>
> release of the minute is, with every PHP option installed and the<br>
> latest bleeding edge version. They try to get it to run on one of our<br>
> SLES 11 or RHEL 6 servers, and it won't... they don't understand that<br>
> I can't just "upgrade to PHP 5.4.x"...yeah...5.3 with backported<br>
> security updates is currently supported on this release - don't like<br>
> it? Take a hike. Oh, and giving them dev space on a server with the<br>
> same patch level doesn't help, because they can't possibly work within<br>
> the confines of THAT old environment.<br>
> The fact that so many web people think developing on a bleeding-edge<br>
> workstation distro is a sane idea just throws fuel on the fire of my<br>
> dislike for Ubuntu.<br>
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</div>Try to use Ruby on Rails and not use bleeding-edge! Whenever you create<br>
a new app it wants to pull down all the most current gems possible.<br>
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