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From: Curtis Napier <curtis119@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:43:27
Message-Id: 44490BAF.4020807@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing by Eldad Zack
1 Eldad Zack wrote:
2 > On Monday 17 April 2006 05:08, Luca Longinotti wrote:
3 >> The PHP Herd announces that the old-style PHP packages, which were
4 >> unsupported and deprecated for months, are finally going away.
5 >> After months of work, the team considers the new dev-lang/php package
6 >> and the related dev-php[4,5]/ categories fully ready for production use,
7 >> and encourage all users to upgrade.
8 >> Helpful informations can be found at the PHP project’s pages [1], along
9 >> with a HOWTO [2] regarding the migration to dev-lang/php.
10 >> The old-style PHP packages (dev-php/php, dev-php/php-cgi,
11 >> dev-php/mod_php, dev-php/PECL-*, and older dev-php/PEAR-* packages) will
12 >> be package.masked on Wednesday, 19 April 2006, and removed from the
13 >> Portage tree about a month later.
14 >
15 > Just wanted to say a collective thank-you for the long tedious work you've
16 > done with php.
17 >
18 > Thanks guys!
19 >
20
21
22 Me too, this was an awesome job. I use these packages on torrents.g.o
23 and it works great. Thanks for all the hard work. :-)
24
25 --curtis

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