Bleeding edge? What about PHP?

Bleeding edge? What about PHP?

Thanks, dlang, but openSUSE is supposed to be a community distro, not an
enterprise distro. As a community distro, it should have more latitude to
be on the bleeding edge--especially given that SuSE Professional 9.3
packaged PHP 5.0.3.

I realize that this is structured like the Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise Linux
relationship: Novell will evaluate the contents of the community distro
(10.0, 10.1?) to determine what they will stand behind and officially
support in the next version of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell
Desktop, etc.

Including PHP 5.0 in the first iteration of the community distro, then
lifting that to PHP 5.1 when the release does happen (even in the openSUSE
10.1 stream), would seem to be the sensible thing to do _for a community
distro_.

openSUSE is still very new and will undoubtedly go through some growing
pains as it learns to be a community distro (in the sense of transparent
development decisions, packaging rationale, and open discussions with
users, upstream developers, and would-be contributors). The third goal
listed in their project overview recognizes this requirement:

"Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to
make SUSE Linux the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application
developers".