From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 14:00:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEC8106564A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:00:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F1D8FC19 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A8F28426; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:00:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (ip-86-49-61-235.net.upcbroadband.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BEFA528424; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:00:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F5E0192.8000301@quip.cz> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:00:50 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 Lightning/1.0b1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <201203112026.30630.subbsd@gmail.com> <4F5DB7C7.6090308@FreeBSD.org> <4F5DE9DC.8050005@quip.cz> <20120312093126.4420939f@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20120312093126.4420939f@scorpio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry Subject: Re: PHP 5.4.0 : lang/php54 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:00:54 -0000 Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:19:40 +0100 > Miroslav Lachman articulated: > >> I really understand that you don't have a time or will to maintain >> more than 1 version of PHP - it is not an easy task. But what is the >> difference between more versions of PHP in the ports tree and more >> versions of Python, Perl, MySQL, Postgresql, Postfix... and many more >> ports? There is always some reason why they are there. >> Some of them (Perl 5.8 comes to my mind) are/were in the tree for a >> long time after upstream EOL. >> >> Personally - I don't need older PHP versions for webaplications >> written by my-self, but there are many hosted websites depending on >> an older versions on our webhosting servers. Customers must wait for >> update from their vedors etc. Even some mainstream Open Source CMS >> and other applications lags behind PHP development. > > The primary reason that so many older/EOL'd versions of programs are > still in existence is because by nature most individuals are just plain > lazy. Face it, man only invented electricity because watching TV by > candle light was not very convenient. > > Seriously though, all too many users have to be dragged into the future > or else they will just rot in the past. If support for EOL'd crap was > implemented immediately, support for the newer versions would be > instituted lickety-split. It is not about EoL in the first place. PHP 5.3 is still maintained branch by vendor. And if we are talking about more than one branch... FreeBSD exists in 3 parallel branches + HEAD. Miroslav Lachman