[csw-maintainers] OpenCSW default PHP version

[Peter FELECAN]

Mike Watters <mwatters at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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.

I'm voting to move php5 out of /opt/csw/php5 and retire PHP4 or, at
least, put it in /opt/csw/php4.
-- 
Peter