alt Hacker NewsFWIW, Docker images are a nice-to-have, but OCI containers are not how most PHP users get their PHP.
For all the long-tail users, PHP is a distro package. That route needed the most work instead, and it got it.
FWIW, Docker images are a nice-to-have, but OCI containers are not how most PHP users get their PHP.
For all the long-tail users, PHP is a distro package. That route needed the most work instead, and it got it.
There's over 3 million downloads per month for the official PHP image. That may certainly not be "most PHP users". But still is a a lot of users.
I'm quite certain that your exact sentiment is why the images weren't updated immediately: I'm afraid PHP foundation doesn't see docker images as a particularly important distribution system.