mail/roundcube (bsd.php.mk broken?)

[Guido Falsi]

On 03/24/16 01:56, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On 2016-03-23 08:42 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> On 03/24/16 01:09, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> 
>>> ports tree. I guess i can try upgrading to 5.5 and hope that my
>>> applications are compatible with it. Sigh, FreeBSD has become a PITA
>>> lately to maintain unless everything installed is bleeding edge. In any
>>> case, thanks for the help.
>>
>> Sorry I beg to disagree.
>>
>> php 5.4 is unsupported upstream, and 5.5 will EOL in a few months. You
>> should complain to the php project about this, not the ports tree, which
>> is just complying with upstream.
> 
> You are correct, however I think php is a special case, because it's a
> slow adopter, sadly a lot of hosting providers have not updated and a
> lot of software is still not compatible with the latest versions. For
> example, the default version of php in CentOS 7 is still 5.4, so I don't
> see why removing it from ports was a good idea.
> 

The reason is it is not supported, bugs and vulnerabilities are not
fixed, we would end up giving potentially insecure software, or even
worse, software with known vulnerabilities.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>