Return ports www/sams

[zlopi]

It makes me sad to look at how changes in recent years FreeBSD - not
for the better.
New packages - it's good. But! Stable packages replaced by new
unstable version - this is wrong.

Thanks for taking your time on me.

2014-08-25 21:26 GMT+04:00 John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st>:
> On 8/25/2014 19:18, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
>> Not for nothing, but since PHP 5.3 is still in the ports tree, then why
>> delete ports that depend on it? I know PHP 5.3 has now reached EOL, but
>> there is probably still a fair amount of legacy code which breaks with
>> PHP 5.4. I'm not advocating using it, but some people have no choice. If
>> people want it in the ports tree and they understand the risks,
>> shouldn't it be their choice?
>
> When it was deleted, the port claimed that it *only* worked with PHP4.
> It was only after the deletion that somebody said it would work with
> 5.3.  At that point we weren't bringing back an long-time unmaintained
> port for a PHP that is probably itself on it's way out.  Unmaintained at
> the ports level *and* upstream.
>
> If these users really want to accept risk, they can always put a copy of
> www/sams locally in their tree.
>
> www/sams2 is supposed to work with PHP 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5.  Until I hear
> why it's not a suitable replacement for an unmaintained sams, I don't
> understand why this discussion is happening at all.
>
> John