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Hi, |
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The PHP Herd is pleased to announce that it has added new packages to |
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Portage which will allow Gentoo to provide stable PHP4 and PHP5 packages |
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on the same box at the same time. These packages have come from the |
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successful PHP Overlay [1]. |
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At the heart of these packages is the new dev-lang/php package (which |
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will replace the existing dev-php/php, dev-php/php-cgi, and |
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dev-php/mod_php packages), and the new dev-php4 and dev-php5 categories |
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which allow us to provide, and support, PHP extensions and frameworks |
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that are specific to each version of PHP. |
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These changes also leave us well-placed for the next major release of |
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PHP (possibly called PHP-6), which upstream are currently brewing. |
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We hope to move these packages to ~arch (on architectures that the PHP |
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Herd supports) on Thursday 8th September, as part of our migration plans |
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[2]. If you find any problems with the packages, please file bugs in |
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Bugzilla as normal. |
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We are aiming to remove the old dev-php/php-4* et al packages on 8th |
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January 2006; support for non-security issues will cease two months |
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earlier on 8th October 2005. The older dev-php/php-5* et al packages |
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have been removed today; anyone still using these packages should move |
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across to the new dev-lang/php package. |
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Support for other architectures will follow as and when other arch teams |
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can resource it; you can follow the progress in [3], and provide |
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feedback to help the arch teams assess the stability of these packages. |
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The PHP Overlay will continue to be the place where the PHP Herd does |
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most of its development and testing. You'll find more packages in the |
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Overlay than in Portage, and new versions of packages will be tested in |
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the Overlay first. |
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[1] http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/gentoo.php |
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[2] http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php-overlay/ |
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[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/102649 |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ |
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GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu |
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Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C |
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