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On 06/04/2016 04:03 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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> LOL - that still happens?! |
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Yeah, at least in the U.S. There was a "PHP 6", but everything went so |
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wrong that they decided to just pretend that the number 6 doesn't exist. |
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> I still see php5 installed as stable everywhere .. so perhaps php7 still |
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> has a little way to go (not that I would be *so* stupid to suggest that |
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> something like 'debian' was a barometer of such things, nooo..!!!) |
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We've still got 5.x stable, but that's because there's a security bug |
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for PHP every 20 days and it takes 30 days to stabilize an ebuild. |
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Here's a status report: |
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* We've got the "eselect php..." stuff sorted out already so you can |
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easily switch between 5.6 and 7.0 on-the-fly. |
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* Most extensions have a version that works with php-7.0. |
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* Some PECL extensions only work with certain versions of PHP, yet are |
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not slotted. This will probably cause some headaches, but it's |
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pretty late in the game and I don't have the time to overhaul the |
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way we do extensions at the last minute. We may have to tell people |
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that they can't switch between php-5 and php-7 with certain |
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extensions (there are around 8 that cause problems). |
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* The PHP upgrade itself is pretty harmless. Check your logs for |
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deprecation warnings. If there aren't any, you can probably just |
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switch to 7.0 with eselect and have everything work. It's a lot |
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faster and a bit less stupid than previous versions. |
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In any case, to bring this back on-topic, dev-lang/php now has a webp |
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USE flag too, so +1 for making it global. |
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