PHP 5.3 for Lucid

[Adam Conrad]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:20:28PM -0500, Ralph Janke wrote:
> PHP 5.3 has several major additions in regards to namespace, and
> overloading for static methods of classes. It would be very detrimental
> to take those important features away from Ubuntu.

I couldn't care less about features, really, stable releases are all
about being feature-stable, not feature-spiffy, but from a security
perspective, the 5.3.x branch will keep seeing updates for many years to
come, while the 5.2.x branch will die a miserable death long before
Lucid does.

So, for pure supportability reasons, 5.3.x seems like the much saner
future-proof option.

... Adam