Re: Jamaica will move to PHP 5.3

[email protected] wrote:
> Marcel van der Boom wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:02:17 +0200
>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  This decision is driven mainly by the problems with PostgreSQL
>> Out of curiosity, what were these problems?
>>
>> marcel
>>
>>
> 
> The postgres extension does not load properly in Windows as of 5.2.6.
> There is a bug registered with PHP to that effect that I don't have at
> hand at the moment. The bug was supposed to have been fixed in 5.2.7,
> but I recall still having problems in 5.2.10.

Is that the only reason for making 5.3 the minimum requirement? Can it not stay
at 5.2.6 with a workaround for a specific bug (on a specific platform, with a
specific database) being to update PHP to 5.3?

I'm only asking because there are a lot of differences between those two
versions (some modules removed by default and some added).

-- Jason