[PLUG] LAMP Platform Updating Problems

Kenneth B. Hill KEN at scottshill.com
Wed May 30 18:27:32 UTC 2007


I have a been leading a development project of a database app that is  
built on a LAMP-variant platform (it uses Gentoo Linux, Apache,  
PostgreSQL AND PHP) along with some CPAN perl modules and MapServer.  
We seem to have problems with updates to the individual LAMP tools  
not working with the other LAMP tools. For example, if we update  
Apache with a security update, then we experience with features in  
the app not working in a perl mod or PHP etc.

I recently got back from a business trip, and I sat next to someone  
on the airplane that does LAMP database application development. I  
shared with him this experience, and he agreed with me that this is  
an underlying problem with developing in a LAMP environment/platform.  
This results in increasing our labor/time costs in maintaining the  
infrastructure of the application. I would like to hear other  
experiences with this issue - if any.

-Ken



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