[csw-maintainers] OpenCSW default PHP version

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri May 8 18:27:34 CEST 2009


Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Fri May 08 11:44:46 -0400 2009:
>> I'm packaging a product which has a PHP binding, amongst other
>> bindings. I must make a choice to bind for PHP4 or PHP5 and I would like
>> to choose the "default one"... Which is?
>
> PHP4 is deprecated and should be available as legacy only.  It was
> eol'd in 2007 with critical security patches only until 2008.  Nothing
> new should be built against it, imo.
>
> http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php (search down to 'end of life')

Thank you Ben. This led me to ask: why have we PHP4 in /opt/csw/bin and
not PHP5? If I wish to use the current PHP I would expect to have it in
/opt/csw/bin and not in some specific path, i.e. /opt/csw/php5/bin

Can this be corrected?
-- 
Peter



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