[php-maint] Bug#397179: Bug#397179: Bug#397179: Please don't add this patch
Ondřej Surý
ondrej at sury.org
Tue May 22 08:41:09 UTC 2007
Thijs Kinkhorst píše v Út 22. 05. 2007 v 10:16 +0200:
> On Monday 21 May 2007 17:52, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > 'Debian version doesn't work with RedHat' isn't a valid excuse in my
> > opinion. If you want to ensure compatability with vanilla versions, you
> > should build it yourself.
>
> I'm involved with some upstream PHP projects, and I know of the difficulties
> that there currently are in just maintaining compatibility of every new
> release of PHP that changes things. I'm therefore quite wary of distributions
> adding another vector over which possible incompatibilities could be
> introduced.
Yeah, we all know that maintaining PHP and PHP apps is hell on the
world :).
> I've seen some reports of those applications that stopped working when used
> with suphp,
suphp and suhosin are just two entirely different things. suphp changes
how is php run. suhosin changes realpath function and tries more harder
to protect memory management. I don't think it should break anything
correct.
> so I'm not that enthousiastic. But I'll do some more research and
> experimenting with this patch and a set of PHP applications, and see whether
> it's something to worry about or not.
I suggest you read the patch :-).
Ondrej.
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