Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:56:11 +0400 From: zlopi <zlopi.ru@gmail.com> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <crees@physics.org> Subject: Re: Return ports www/sams Message-ID: <CAN8qoOSrmMPPBVzwD4ETHUtE%2BzzJXz8Q=HUksvBHn0=DU_8%2BkQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53FB71B4.4090703@marino.st> References: <CAN8qoOQOkJRiMh1E4fa_t1BReGyY=gA_seakE9aixcOPumrBLw@mail.gmail.com> <53FB5C74.2010409@physics.org> <53FB620A.1040603@marino.st> <CAN8qoOSRxY61152VJguPZBaB5w7CPg5eDOMnxCzuaVKCkZoO=g@mail.gmail.com> <53FB67B9.9040003@marino.st> <53FB6FE7.90701@ohlste.in> <53FB71B4.4090703@marino.st>
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It makes me sad to look at how changes in recent years FreeBSD - not for the better. New packages - it's good. But! Stable packages replaced by new unstable version - this is wrong. Thanks for taking your time on me. 2014-08-25 21:26 GMT+04:00 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>: > On 8/25/2014 19:18, Jim Ohlstein wrote: >> Not for nothing, but since PHP 5.3 is still in the ports tree, then why >> delete ports that depend on it? I know PHP 5.3 has now reached EOL, but >> there is probably still a fair amount of legacy code which breaks with >> PHP 5.4. I'm not advocating using it, but some people have no choice. If >> people want it in the ports tree and they understand the risks, >> shouldn't it be their choice? > > When it was deleted, the port claimed that it *only* worked with PHP4. > It was only after the deletion that somebody said it would work with > 5.3. At that point we weren't bringing back an long-time unmaintained > port for a PHP that is probably itself on it's way out. Unmaintained at > the ports level *and* upstream. > > If these users really want to accept risk, they can always put a copy of > www/sams locally in their tree. > > www/sams2 is supposed to work with PHP 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5. Until I hear > why it's not a suitable replacement for an unmaintained sams, I don't > understand why this discussion is happening at all. > > John
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