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Ben Munat wrote: |
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> TRauMa wrote: |
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>> Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>> My pear command (/usr/bin/pear) is broken. Trying to do anything with |
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>> Switch to dev-lang/php? |
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> Benefits? |
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One compile now does php, php-cgi and mod_php. php4 and 5 specific packets. |
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"In the past there have been a lot of requests why PHP5 in portage isn't |
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marked as stable yet. The problem is not the PHP5 package itself, the |
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main reason why PHP5 wasn't marked stable yet is that there are many |
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applications, php-extensions and packages in portage, which do not work |
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with PHP5, and there is nothing we can do about it. PHP5 isn't 100% |
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backwards compatible with PHP4, and not every PHP4 program can/will be |
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ported to run on PHP5. Many users are going to need PHP4 support for a |
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long time to come. |
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The solution to solve the problems is to provide a mixed PHP4 / PHP5 |
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environment on the same box at the same time. But that wasn't possible |
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with the current layout of PHP packages and eclasses, so there needed to |
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be put a lot of effort into a new layout, new eclasses and new ebuilds." |
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> Pitfalls? |
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Watch your use flags. |
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> Difficulties? |
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it's ~unstable, but well documented |
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<http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php-overlay/file/docs/php-upgrading.html?format=raw>. |
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> dev-php will be deprecated in favor of dev-lang eventually, right? Oh, |
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> and are you saying that dev-lang/php doesn't have a broken pear, but |
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> dev-php/php does?? |
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Seems so. I switched to dev-lang three weeks ago and I'm much happier now. |
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regards, |
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T. |
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