From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 12 09:28:26 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 157D1546 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm25-vm6.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm25-vm6.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC8971D41 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.39.60.171] by nm25.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Dec 2013 09:25:03 -0000 Received: from [67.195.22.117] by tm7.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Dec 2013 09:25:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp112.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Dec 2013 09:25:03 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1386840303; bh=Aw6rkVhKTxbY7RaFiKp/mTcy9/t/bqmziCzv8pXFjWs=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:Subject:References; b=WdWvV6YLVrvrUpa1sea73xULEDBVmCWSQJHcSLLKpFyY8MZlzxXLOdPMSMVBjh6lUWVRDZCApei0mZkKEAIpeJlAa7SJWICImHhSkv2K6a/qk6fevhfGwzIs2ipj/afZwYZNCIV1/L71zOiDLK9uOV37Nwo39iwUDQb6K/hNDtw= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 240595.5476.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <240595.5476.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:25:03 -0800 (PST) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: n8sDp6YVM1nJm_L3BSrf9uQuC.zygMN.AKZEMrHJBPIlbIF hm1WL3RYhu3rKsX8zstNRmYFUqIpoxoOGfKjlnf7.42ujNY2CwCPbOANypcb O55BKWUO2.Jg76KFZjS7l1JX_pczjKviO12RzrJ5E4.NhF6A9YIP9F1J6tyq hNzI._HQByL0AkOz2MvtsMz1vf72u5XPxjvppqItFCwwiD.n2Zd4WdUs4UKN CQa1C5J2uBq3HPXLakGjOaeKjXxs7fNhoby7Swd5zLQpWntZHpvRn26JyeHx gnnT49qzhJjPuFT1uDbAPr7BNxcdeI.RBJCdYgpf0VgTqcRx51aTVK0TRhy2 60iUF5hBgfHdf6OX80oZSJOGUeQWZ0FGDH.SNm_m6bQXAYo21ruam7P2ySME PcRVnuM3B0RR0gqHY0aIA.MLBJyYe2JAPVx5iFHDhS256CSJPlRZiWdxxpDJ _B.U74x8gVUJtdLMKtQ.0uNc3kBu49zXELn6a87CrfoWScredYzCOxBabTNn NzuWRYBrJx5gcP75Mb3Mjn64mRAo69UxMDVTXii3ACPHLkD0XlZHsiCazSnj MF.Tia.KK3HyXJLr6Sr0- X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with ) by smtp112.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2013 01:25:03 -0800 PST From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: phpMyAdmin-4.1.0 References: <52A968AA.5000305@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:28:26 -0000 > I have an update to phpMyAdmin in the works -- but version 4.1.0 now > requires at least PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5. > Currently I'm minded to fork a phpMyAdmin-4.0 port to allow support for > people still using MySQL 5.1 or older versions of PHP, but... this isn't > considered a major version change by the phpMyAdmin development team, so > there won't be any support for the 4.0 series going forwards. > Hence the putative phpMyAdmin40 port would be an unchanging snapshot of > version 4.0.10. > Knowing the history of phpMyAdmin with respect to security holes this > phpMyAdmin40 port would likely have to be removed within a few months > anyhow. > What do people think? Is it worth forking the port? > Cheers, > Matthew -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. I don't see the point in forking to maintain compatibility with outdated versions of PHP and MySQL. But what about compatibility with MariaDB in place of MySQL? Tom