PHP version retirement

[Martin Waschbüsch]

Hi Wolfgang,

> Am 11.08.2019 um 01:12 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org>:
> 
> * Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de> [190811 00:47]:
>>> Am 10.08.2019 um 20:18 schrieb Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>:
>>> 
>>> Umm this was just the kick in the pants that I needed to switch to PHP 7.
>>> See https://www.glaver.org/blog/?p=1109 for a desperation 'I need PHP5.6' hack which I used during this update.
> 
>> Thank you, Patrick,
>> that is a work-around I also came across. It helped me as well.
> 
> You could also have used the quarterly branch, which keeps software till
> the end of the quarter. In the case of php 5.6 it would have given you
> time until March 31st, and would have included version 5.6.40
> 
> Wolfgang


5.6.40 never made it into the main ports tree. Are you sure it was available in the quarterly snapshot?