[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Sean Burlington]

Richard Jones wrote:

> Specific version numbers of RHEL packages don't usually mean much
> after a while, because we backport so many features from later
> packages back.  The kernel "version" 2.6.18 is a case in point.

Then for all I know the script would have actually worked if it wasn't 
first testing for a specific PHP version number and refusing to run.

and someone else has asked the (now obvious) question

http://drupal.org/node/502452
"Is it possible to check for the specific features required for drush 
(e.g., JSON), rather than checking the PHP version number?"

Well I'm glad I asked about RH and PHP - I've learned something useful :-)

... but how do I know which features the RH version of PHP has?

Normally when I'm not sure I check the PHP manual - which tells me which 
version number a feature was available from.

-- 

Sean Burlington

www.practicalweb.co.uk


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