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On 04/06/16 21:17, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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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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Thanks for that - keeps the sysadmin side of me abreast of looming changes ! |
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