postmaster php55 left php5 stuff

Alex Dupre ale at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 12 10:56:51 UTC 2013


Bryan Drewery ha scritto:

> This is going to sound crazy, but I think the only safe way to upgrade
> major PHP versions currently is to deinstall all php ports, then install
> the new version/origins. That and other methods were discussed on ports@
> when 5.4 came out.

Yes, there are 10 types of people in the world: who want php port always
updated to the latest branch and who want a new set of phpXX ports for
every branch.
It's impossible to satisfy both types, unless we keep an additional set
of 'php' ports with the same contents of latest 'phpXX' set.

-- 
Alex Dupre


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