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From: Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:12:59
Message-Id: 200604190509.55525.eldad@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing by Luca Longinotti
1 On Monday 17 April 2006 05:08, Luca Longinotti wrote:
2 > The PHP Herd announces that the old-style PHP packages, which were
3 > unsupported and deprecated for months, are finally going away.
4 > After months of work, the team considers the new dev-lang/php package
5 > and the related dev-php[4,5]/ categories fully ready for production use,
6 > and encourage all users to upgrade.
7 > Helpful informations can be found at the PHP project’s pages [1], along
8 > with a HOWTO [2] regarding the migration to dev-lang/php.
9 > The old-style PHP packages (dev-php/php, dev-php/php-cgi,
10 > dev-php/mod_php, dev-php/PECL-*, and older dev-php/PEAR-* packages) will
11 > be package.masked on Wednesday, 19 April 2006, and removed from the
12 > Portage tree about a month later.
13
14 Just wanted to say a collective thank-you for the long tedious work you've
15 done with php.
16
17 Thanks guys!
18
19 --
20 Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>
21 Key/Fingerprint at pgp.mit.edu, ID 0x96EA0A93

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing Curtis Napier <curtis119@g.o>