From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 25 18:56:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: 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 1C471CB6; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2B223EC1; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id kx10so21714291pab.20 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:56:11 -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=y8es4+z1lg5Jd/Y8pOov2/tFqmTVpPlZ74suC6ER/AM=; b=IwPVNIUW0E8RyRrjUsoemU2Ny1LYIA5bCvbpLZHOy52teaHDGDMG5n9T4fkVEdhR+e hhwKv3mSwMgrqn1WeeZ7glDpbhuOa3CBRdE5y4GjLoHk9tWUbEUm7VXQdbcMgpWi9y4W 9KRBWbsh9wceZ3A3kvRHyeupwghnFiC63I6lSELWk7LyWGr+Q8n5g9VYvqVY4DCBTm4B aC9sbCyyzFJCsXvTjvCDLSsF4Zb6R7H5+qZ4ACmc06Rw30K4aDVxHVhf9JNGrxA6rCwJ GbjspiEgcRGPII4jvGT+Fy7NV2BHINLLXaKRW7JFxDIBaLM4zp10wnWGwyufVCwmTpIM 2liQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.57.232 with SMTP id l8mr22572485pbq.79.1408992971378; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.94.104 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:56:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53FB71B4.4090703@marino.st> References: <53FB5C74.2010409@physics.org> <53FB620A.1040603@marino.st> <53FB67B9.9040003@marino.st> <53FB6FE7.90701@ohlste.in> <53FB71B4.4090703@marino.st> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:56:11 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Return ports www/sams From: zlopi To: marino@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Chris Rees X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:56:12 -0000 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 : > 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