[RFC] PHP 5.3

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.ports at mailing.thruhere.net
Sat Dec 19 20:17:23 UTC 2009


Hi,

sorry to jump in late..

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 04:52:35 Alex Dupre wrote:
> Gergely CZUCZY ha scritto:
> >> Oh come on. Security-wise you shouldn't hold php at all. It's about
> >> backwards incompatibility, not about security.
> 
> PHP 5.3 is not more incompatible with 5.2 than 5.2 was with 5.1 (and 5.1
> with 5.0). 5.2 branch will be dropped in near future, so I'm not going
> to maintain 80 (eighty) additional ports just for fun.

Would it be interesting to see which ports break with 5.3 and fix these or 
mark them broken before/at the same time 5.3 hits the tree?
Also, the impact of the 5.3 incompatibilities is much larger then 5.1 to 5.2, 
even though the number is similar.
-- 
Mel


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