[mythtv] Dropping php4 support from MythWeb

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/12/06, jack snodgrass <mrlinuxgroups at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> > Chris Petersen wrote:
> > > Ross Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > >> So... from a fedora-centric view, I believe this would mean that FC3
> > >> and backward would no longer work with a mythweb that requires php5
> > >> without either someone building a lot of  new packages or individual
> > >> users recompiling apache/php/etc.
> > >>
> > >> If I have 6 months to a year to plan my system upgrades, then I think
> > >> I'm okay with this.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yeah, I'm not expecting anything soon.  .21 is a few months out
> > > (assuming that Isaac decides to do that instead of .20.1), and .22
> > > should be another long span as they rework the UI stuff.
> > >
> > > FC3 will get EOL'd in a week or so, so I can't feel too bad about it.
> > > There comes a point when if you want to run the latest version of
> > > something like mythtv, you'll just have to upgrade.
> > >
> > I'm still running RH9 on my backend but I am by far the minority here
> > and I will simply find a package or upgrade from source if needed to
> > keep my system up to date.  I've long given up applying changes to it
> > other than myth.  I've even got my own patched ivtv 4.x version that
> > works on my old kernel with CC VBI support that I won't touch now that
> > it is working.  :)
> >
> > Kevin
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Not sure if it's pertinent or not, but you can run a FC5 vmware guest
> image on a FC3 Vmware server and have the FC5 guest image run
> just mysql 5.x, the latest apche and php5, etc.
>
> I do something similar... my fw runs fc4 and I run vmware on it.
> My webserver / mail server / mysql server / etc run on FC5
> as a vmware guest.  The fw ( FC4 part ) runs the mythbackend
> and has the drives needed to work with my 2 HDTV capture cards.
>
> vmware has come out with a 'vmware player' and 'vmware sever'
> that are free to use.

for some reason, compiling from source sounds a whole lot easier
(though not necesarily as geek-cool).

-- 
Steve
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