PHP7 + Synth issue

[Martin Wilke]

Hi,

The long term solution will be switching to mysqli or pdo_mysql which is
provided by php70 (and php55/56), I am working right now on cleaning up the
pecl ports, after that I'll go and check which port can switch already.

- Martin

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:27 PM, John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st> wrote:

> On 2/17/2016 2:24 PM, Matt Smith wrote:
> > The problem is that it isn't just that port. I've also seen it on
> > databases/mysqldumper for example. It's going to affect all ports which
> > have USE_PHP=mysql within them of which I suspect there are quite a
> > lot.  It might be impractical to do what you suggest with them all and
> > I'm wondering if miwi as the maintainer of PHP7 has any thoughts of an
> > official way of solving it.
>
> Yes, I agree with you in that case.
> The USE_PHP=mysql needs to handle the case of php 7.0.
>
> is mysqli inbuilt to php7?  or does it require a different dependency so
> USE_PHP=mysql needs to switch depending on the php version?
>
> in any case, synth is involved only because it cause it first I guess.
>
> John
>



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        Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org)

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