Return ports www/sams
John Marino
freebsd.contact at marino.st
Mon Aug 25 19:41:59 UTC 2014
On 8/25/2014 21:39, Chris Rees wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> It seems to me that this might have been better just put in as an update
> to www/sams.
Both the new maintainer and upstream wanted it called www/sams2 and did
not want it to use the same portname.
>
> Zlopi, please would you try out sams2 and let us know if it just works
> the same? That could render this whole discussion pointless!
Please wait about 30 minutes, I have an important update brewing.
John
>
> Chris
>
> On 25 August 2014 19:56:11 BST, zlopi <zlopi.ru
> <http://zlopi.ru>@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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