Re: PHP73 removed ?

> On 29 Jan 2022, at 11:52, Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 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)
>>> …
You have to remove the ports and reinstall. Like mentioned in UPDATING for other PHP variants.

>> 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.
It was marked deprecated a month ago so no announcement in UPDATING other than the fact that it was no longer the DEFAULT which was safe to remove from the tree.

> You can still use php 7.4, and if you install php74 and all
> the php74-xxxx packages, your application probably will still work.
Active support of 7.4 has also expired and will be removed after 28th November 2022 when Security support also ends.

For now you can set "DEFAULT_VERSIONS= php=7.4" in /etc/make.conf which will let you use it for another 10 months or so I believe. And hopefully by that time most of the application will be PHP8 compatible.


> Which application do you use ?
> 
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Kind Regards,
Moin (bofh)