> Am 10.08.2019 um 20:18 schrieb Patrick Powell <[email protected]>: > > Umm this was just the kick in the pants that I needed to switch to PHP 7. > See https://www.glaver.org/blog/?p=1109 for a desperation 'I need PHP5.6' > hack which I used during this update.
Thank you, Patrick, that is a work-around I also came across. It helped me as well. > I must say that the update to PHP 7 was relatively painless - there is PHP6 > to PHP7 update support and lots of help/suggestions. I also found an > embarassing amount of bad PHP code during the update process, something > I should have suspected I would find. For my own projects, this is not an issue. I do try to follow the deprecation announcements for php. The issue is one where customers insist (against my explicit advice) to continue to use outdated PHP-based software that is not easily upgraded (and probably should be replaced instead of patched). > Note that the changes suggested by Mr. Glaver seem to be applicable to new > versions of the Ports tree UPDATING and .../.mk files so you can use the > latest Ports tree with the appropriate minor modifications. You can even > generate a > script to apply these updates/mods each time you run 'portsnap'. But I > digress... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
