PHP 5.3 for Lucid

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:51 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> Kees Cook wrote:
> > Mathias Gug wrote:
> >> Right. There are a couple of php packages (drupal, joomla, etc...)
> >> currently in Lucid that are not working with 5.3. These would have to
> >> be ported to 5.3 before we release.
> >
> > Joomla isn't in Ubuntu, and drupal (universe) should not block php (main).
> 
>     I thought the fridge used drupal.  While I generally agree that we
> shouldn't block a transitoin based on one stubborn package, I'd hope
> we'd be able to upgrade our shared infrastructure to the next LTS
> without needing to deploy an entirely new platform.  I agree entirely
> about joomla, but someone ought port drupal prior to release if the
> transition goes ahead.

Drupal 6.14 and later should work okay with php 5.3. We currently have
drupal 6.15 in lucid. There may be some modules that don't work
properly, but we don't ship those.

See:

http://drupal.org/requirements
http://drupal.org/node/360605

Marc.