PHP version retirement

Martin Waschbüsch martin at waschbuesch.de
Sun Aug 11 23:23:35 UTC 2019


> Am 11.08.2019 um 23:31 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org>:
> 
> * Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de> [190811 20:41]:
>> [..]
>>> 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
> 
>> 5.6.40 never made it into the main ports tree. Are you sure it was available in the quarterly snapshot?
> 
> I am sure. You can check for yourself using the svnweb interface at the
> FreeBSD website; php 5.6.40 was added to the 2019Q1 branch on Jan 26th

Thanks, Wolfgang, for pointing that out.

Up to now I always thought of quarterly as a static snapshot of the main ports tree made at a given point in time.


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