Hi John, It seems to me that this might have been better just put in as an update to www/sams.
Zlopi, please would you try out sams2 and let us know if it just works the same? That could render this whole discussion pointless! Chris On 25 August 2014 19:56:11 BST, zlopi <[email protected]> wrote: >It makes me sad to look at how changes in recent years FreeBSD - not >for the better. >New packages - it's good. But! Stable packages replaced by new >unstable version - this is wrong. > >Thanks for taking your time on me. > >2014-08-25 21:26 GMT+04:00 John Marino <[email protected]>: >> On 8/25/2014 19:18, Jim Ohlstein wrote: >>> Not for nothing, but since PHP 5.3 is still in the ports tree, then >why >>> delete ports that depend on it? I know PHP 5.3 has now reached EOL, >but >>> there is probably still a fair amount of legacy code which breaks >with >>> PHP 5.4. I'm not advocating using it, but some people have no >choice. If >>> people want it in the ports tree and they understand the risks, >>> shouldn't it be their choice? >> >> When it was deleted, the port claimed that it *only* worked with >PHP4. >> It was only after the deletion that somebody said it would work with >> 5.3. At that point we weren't bringing back an long-time >unmaintained >> port for a PHP that is probably itself on it's way out. Unmaintained >at >> the ports level *and* upstream. >> >> If these users really want to accept risk, they can always put a copy >of >> www/sams locally in their tree. >> >> www/sams2 is supposed to work with PHP 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5. Until I >hear >> why it's not a suitable replacement for an unmaintained sams, I don't >> understand why this discussion is happening at all. >> >> John > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
