PHP 5.2 (lang/php52) port

[Micheas Herman]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:09 +0200, Guido Falsi wrote: 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:23:15AM +0900, Svyatoslav Lempert wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > We have problems for a considerable quantity of users which are linked
> > to upgrade of major version PHP 5.2 to version 5.3 in port lang/php5
> > They are linked to considerable incompatibility of old scripts which
> > should are corrected and rewrited for correct work under PHP 5.3.2.
> 
> Can't you just downgrade the php port to the previous version?

        That isn't really completely viable as there would then be no
        upgrade path to php 5.2.14 php, 5.2.13 was released in February
        of 2010 and is a security update to the 5.2.X line of php and
        based on past history I would expect 5.2.17 to be released.
        
        Some webapps are not going to be compatible with 5.3 for at
        least another 6 months maybe even 18 months.
        
        CiviCRM is not going to be compatible with 5.3 until the 3.2
        branch is released some time this summer, which means a lot of
        Drupal and Joomla sites are not going to be able to upgrade to
        5.3 until then.

> 
> If you use any of the port management tools t update them you can
> configure them to ignore the php ports as long as your users still
> have not updated their apps for the new php version(but such a
> condiscending attitude toward users will slow down such migration
> indefinitely, at least that's what happens usually with users).

        But, also may leave servers unnecessarily exposed to security
        vulnerabilities. 
        
        Personally, I see greater demand for php52 than php6 which does
        have a port.

> 
> --
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
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