PHP 5.6 is default. What do lang/php5 users do?

Alex Dupre ale at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 25 22:28:10 UTC 2015


Mike Brown ha scritto:
>  From looking at the commits,[1] it seems that if I didn't have lang/php5
> (5.4) installed, and then I installed something that requires PHP, I'd get
> lang/php56. Is that right?

Yes.

> But since I do have lang/php5 installed, upgrading with 'portmaster php5' will
> just get me 5.4.38, not 5.6.

Correct.

> So should I install lang/php56 myself now,

If you like.

> or is it expected that lang/php5
> will eventually become 5.6 and I should just wait,

No.

> or what?

You may also stay with php 5.4, it's your call.

-- 
Alex Dupre


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