From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 15:36:24 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 650AB1065670 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 15:36:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5278FC20 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 15:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so5609913bkv.13 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:36:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=EtoFe3ycg+rRk7PvBqSIASAnDhe8LdMlOMFWI5U0ezQ=; b=DYR27dhIzgah1c3HGz+S5piZeDZi0ples6zHD/8BekgOtZBNrDDlETWoV9mJ7NFHwn klTWsurnMZVHw4+Q2ikKHcnFxaDBpMKMOb4e0IA3J/hw++41Ud1DP2zZFGCQHRRZB4p6 ICAMVtQYuO1ArpV37/1bCF9Oe59seYXo6mY5P41xbZfNg6METbT0grUIRQ6sSMxvIsG+ pg6LLJxfIwkREZwyr9GyUwc4deQZ2wLK3EJwtnhdBt0ZclqKMwC3Oq5JqT7ftGFVKf0X 5sXfkGazw3/Fiwfn8462N6Bj/Hjs964PxPfOhwK56gOJ1LeUi2F620GY4ZZq3bIIppw3 Ja7A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.145.89 with SMTP id c25mr8459753bkv.5.1337614582824; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.171.138 with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.171.138 with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:36:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:22 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: George Kontostanos Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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, 21 May 2012 15:36:24 -0000 On May 21, 2012 4:17 PM, "George Kontostanos" wrote: > > Dear all, > > I just wanted to understand why did php54 became the default php port. > > Considering that the majority of my clients want to stick with php53 > with the susosin patch, I can't blame them, it is really very annoying > that we have to schedule a down time window so that we migrate from > php to php53. > > Because currently there is no other way to do it unless you delete all > your php5 packages and recompile them again under php53. Sure, the web > server will still work even if you delete all php5 packages as long as > apache doesn't restart. But there are many applications who make > certain php cli calls. Those will not work! > > So, my question to the maintainers is, was there a particular reason > that made you take this decision? > > When would have been a better time? Chris