ports default version system

[Mark Felder]

On Nov 9, 2013, at 11:09, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:

> On 2013-11-09 11:00, Mark Felder wrote:
>> On Nov 8, 2013, at 20:34, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> and change the default version of php from lang/php5 to lang/php53
>> Wouldn't that need to be set to lang/php54 as default?
> The port for php 5.4 is called lang/php5 
> 
> confusingly, the default port for php is always lang/php5, and every
> other version is lang/php53 or lang/php55 etc. so when the default gets
> bumped, php 5.4 will become lang/php54 and php5.5 will change from
> lang/php55 to lang/php5
> 

Maybe this should be coordinated with the move of lang/php5 to lang/php54 then? PHP 5.3 is EOL as of March and only receives critical security fixes now. It would also unexpectedly downgrade existing users to 5.3 in some scenarios.