[csw-maintainers] OpenCSW default PHP version

[Mike Watters]

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Peter FELECAN wrote:
> 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?

I am just about to re-compile php5 to fix the latest bugs/feature requests.
now would be the time to change it.

;)  let me know,  I will hold on the recompile until someone weighs in on this.


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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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