Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:65601 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45304 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2013 01:06:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Feb 2013 01:06:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=thbley@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=thbley@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.128.172 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: thbley@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.128.172 mail-ve0-f172.google.com Received: from [209.85.128.172] ([209.85.128.172:46395] helo=mail-ve0-f172.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C7/60-40350-D790F015 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:06:05 -0500 Received: by mail-ve0-f172.google.com with SMTP id cz11so2750210veb.31 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:06:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ecBMV2da/+o/10Mf3rzjtoQzwnsJ4qF07M0d5X7fwAg=; b=cdOb1Y9uVYckN5L8b/REkWrdtDI+lXTEBpSx4DtQhDVsjpzXr0BpHmz742XVe5xkZm kYVk2VaswU9uJFREE5BWgD7B+d4NtzlYh2D/IOnkbqpyyJ67Cs2RggYaAi22E/tXzg3Y Z07h61oeNoZZjmFye+GlO17xJOU2k6FwlMBAAIpiD7eooBRWNB7jx7wHOjaJ8JhJQwMk fdWm8FR+orXC0tUMo87SmqGSYbMVYkM5JTqdOto2zXYT5kWcZWrMqJ+jT/Pziwq/86R2 AzEoaQ1te7y5DF/ZaonOnsOXMmygXIyD1jTjC2Bw1n6BuAqWHbqbrJXmjC7mk/DBERUE jJjQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.233.210 with SMTP id ty18mr16097626vec.46.1359939962316; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:06:02 -0800 (PST) Sender: thbley@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.94.4 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 17:06:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <510EEB1B.4070204@anderiasch.de> References: <510EEB1B.4070204@anderiasch.de> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 02:06:02 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ANuAupJwtEJSdrBuFK8c1Sp4o74 Message-ID: To: Florian Anderiasch Cc: Nikita Popov , "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning From: thbley+php@gmail.com (Thomas Bley) On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Florian Anderiasch wrote: > On 03.02.2013 23:49, Thomas Bley wrote: >> Using Debian/Ubuntu, I have "python2.6", "python2.7" and "python3" >> packages, but only one version of "php5-fpm". >> Maybe it would be better to have "php5.3-fpm" and "php5.4-fpm", using >> /etc/php5.3 and /etc/php5.4 ? >> Esp. for Travis-CI it would be much better to have separate packages >> than running custom workarounds. > > I don't think you'd find many people here disagreeing with distribution > maintainers providing packages for multiple version at the same time > (like 5.3 and 5.4) - so that suggestion should be brought to these > people. (I know, some are reading this list.) > > I've never seen anyone on this list telling a distribution maintainer > not to use /etc/php5.3 or something, please enlighten me if that's not > the case. > > Greetings, > Florian If I see it correctly, none of Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, CentOS, Fedora currently offer more than one version of PHP. The majority of the stable/lts distributions is currently on 5.3.x. Getting packages for different versions and the ability to run them in parallel might also give a push in testing alphas. Regards, Thomas