(originally posted on stackoverflow -- someone suggested I drop the question over here)

Does anyone have any experience in upgrading individual chunks of the XAMPP LAMP stack without installing an upgrade from XAMPP?

We have several production servers which require an update to the openssl lib but the upgrade from XAMPP would take us into newer versions of MySQL and PHP which we haven't tested against yet.

Otherwise, I would look for some sage wisdom from anyone who might have decided to forego XAMPP and build/maintain their own LAMP stack.

Thanks