Even if don't use version 5.2 for a while, and if I prefer to promote the 5.3 upgrade, I need this old thing for a professional project.
According to upstream (PHP projet), this release marks the end of support for PHP 5.2.
RPM are not available in a repository, so couldn't be installed using yum, so must be download and installed manually. Only the Enterprise Linux 4 & 5 (RHEL / CentOS) version is available: in the EL-5 i386 archives in the EL-45x86_64 archives in the EL-4 i386 archives in the EL-4 x86_64 archives as source Build against MySQL 5.1.54 and... Lire php-5.2.16