Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:06 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Oliver Schonrock <oliver@realtsp.com>, alistair@realtsp.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: php5-5.2.11_1 upgrade path to 5.3.0/1 Message-ID: <4AF44DE2.2040304@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <4AF43319.1010909@FreeBSD.org> References: <200911051539.21097.oliver@realtsp.com> <4AF4110C.6060501@FreeBSD.org> <4AF4308B.4080905@quip.cz> <4AF43319.1010909@FreeBSD.org>
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Alex Dupre wrote: > Miroslav Lachman ha scritto: >> So you don't plan to leave 5.2.x version in ports for people who need to >> maintain servers in production with many clients and many 'old' web >> applications? > > Like we don't have ports for php 5.0 and 5.1, I'll not maintain ports > for 5.2 when the switchover will take place. As you can see here > (http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php) there aren't > many incompatible changes. I know there were not repo copy of older versions of PHP, but I think this is where FreeBSD is loosing some points on "enterprise" market against some other server OS distributions. I know it is all about mans power and I am not trying to put some pressure on you. Maintaining ports is not simple task and I know you are maintainer of lot of them. I am just thinking that it would be better if we can have versions of PHP as with Apache [1.3, 2.0, 2.2] or MySQL [3.23, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.4, 6.0 = all well maintained by you, of course ;)], or Postfix, Perl, Python... so users and companies can stick longer time with "what is well tested and working in production". (same as we have choice of FreeBSD versions ~ 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2 + 8.0 in the near future) Even if there are just a "few" incompatibilities, it means some clients applications on webhosting will stop working and clients will scream on helpline right after the update of the servers PHP... I know it is not your problem etc., it is just a real world scenario of some near future days ;) So in my opinion it would be benefical to users if ports infrastructure can handle all vendor supported branches for any port. PHP is just an example in this case. Miroslav Lachman
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