Return ports www/sams

[Chris Rees]

Hi John,

It seems to me that this might have been better just put in as an update to www/sams.

Zlopi, please would you try out sams2 and let us know if it just works the same?  That could render this whole discussion pointless!

Chris

On 25 August 2014 19:56:11 BST, zlopi <zlopi.ru at gmail.com> wrote:
>It makes me sad to look at how changes in recent years FreeBSD - not
>for the better.
>New packages - it's good. But! Stable packages replaced by new
>unstable version - this is wrong.
>
>Thanks for taking your time on me.
>
>2014-08-25 21:26 GMT+04:00 John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st>:
>> On 8/25/2014 19:18, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
>>> Not for nothing, but since PHP 5.3 is still in the ports tree, then
>why
>>> delete ports that depend on it? I know PHP 5.3 has now reached EOL,
>but
>>> there is probably still a fair amount of legacy code which breaks
>with
>>> PHP 5.4. I'm not advocating using it, but some people have no
>choice. If
>>> people want it in the ports tree and they understand the risks,
>>> shouldn't it be their choice?
>>
>> When it was deleted, the port claimed that it *only* worked with
>PHP4.
>> It was only after the deletion that somebody said it would work with
>> 5.3.  At that point we weren't bringing back an long-time
>unmaintained
>> port for a PHP that is probably itself on it's way out.  Unmaintained
>at
>> the ports level *and* upstream.
>>
>> If these users really want to accept risk, they can always put a copy
>of
>> www/sams locally in their tree.
>>
>> www/sams2 is supposed to work with PHP 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5.  Until I
>hear
>> why it's not a suitable replacement for an unmaintained sams, I don't
>> understand why this discussion is happening at all.
>>
>> John
>
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