Re: PHP73 removed ?

Hi!

> I have PHP 7.3 installed and the weekly report shows me an attempt to
> upgrade to PHP 7.4, which failed with IGNORE :

https://www.php.net/releases/

says that

End of Life Dates

The most recent branches to reach end of life status are:

    7.3: 18 Nov 2021

so that's why it was dropped from the ports.

> > ** Port marked as IGNORE: math/php74-bcmath:
> > 	cannot be installed: doesn't work with lang/php73 port (doesn't support PHP 7.2 7.3)
> > ...
> 
> And peridoc/weekly/400.status-pkg tells me :
> 
> > php73-7.3.33 orphaned: lang/php73
> > php73-bcmath-7.3.33 orphaned: math/php73-bcmath
> > php73-bz2-7.3.33 orphaned: archivers/php73-bz2
> > php73-calendar-7.3.33 orphaned: misc/php73-calendar
> > ...
> 
> Did I miss some announcement ? UPDATING just tells about the fact that PHP 8.0 is the new default version.

You can still use php 7.4, and if you install php74 and all
the php74-xxxx packages, your application probably will still work.

Which application do you use ?

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