Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 09:13:30 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PHP 5.4.0 : lang/php54 Message-ID: <4FC4771A.2020209@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <4FC45D40.4060200@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BdUSyp2ztuZdCocnpNCgf-h%2BJO4zMMFEMi_xrm8nbwQ2W9How@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo83_-UOWSc_suztjLBk0xYu_wu1TSN29Nwarn=nsFRv_TFQ@mail.gmail.com> <4FBA618A.1050707@freebsd.org> <20120521155736.GA79323@DataIX.net> <4FBA6FEB.1000706@quip.cz> <4FC45D40.4060200@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On 5/21/2012 9:40 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> I think that the best will be to not have any default "php5" port and >> just use php52, php53, php54, php5X, php60... as we have apache20, >> apache22, apache24, or mysql50-server, mysql51-server, mysql55-server. >> >> There is no default apache2 or mysql5-server, so there is no confusion >> what is / what will be installed. >> >> Then it can be choosed in make.conf what version will be used as >> default, similar to WITH_MYSQL_VER=51 or APACHE_PORT=www/apache22 > > I have been advocating for this for years. IMO we shouldn't have *any* > unversioned ports for things that have multiple simultaneous versions > supported. I've actually done this for the things I support (most > notably bind*) for a long time, and have never had a single user complaint. > > OTOH, the user confusion, broken systems, and generally huge amount of > hassle caused by moving the default version of an important port like > php to one that isn't compatible with the previous default only has > downsides. > > In the days when the total number of ports, and the number of versioned > ports, were both much smaller, the idea of a "default" version made > sense. Neither has been true for a decade or more. Maybe it's time to make the rules and write them in to the Porter's Handbook and/or Committers guide. I don't know who can make this decision. Miroslav Lachman
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