Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:65607 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 68043 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2013 06:50:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Feb 2013 06:50:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=olemarkus@gentoo.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=olemarkus@gentoo.org; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain gentoo.org does not designate 178.79.164.89 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: olemarkus@gentoo.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 178.79.164.89 olemarkus.org Received: from [178.79.164.89] ([178.79.164.89:38349] helo=sophia.olemarkus.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6D/E1-55736-A4A5F015 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:50:53 -0500 Received: from localhost (sophia.olemarkus.org [127.0.0.1]) by sophia.olemarkus.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3951683C for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:50:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sophia.olemarkus.com Received: from sophia.olemarkus.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sophia.olemarkaus.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JdQ10LpFMpHI for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:50:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from [109.189.154.23] (23.154.189.109.customer.cdi.no [109.189.154.23]) by sophia.olemarkus.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4582E15ECF for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:50:37 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <510F5A3C.4060308@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:50:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20121013 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <510EEB1B.4070204@anderiasch.de> In-Reply-To: <510EEB1B.4070204@anderiasch.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning From: olemarkus@gentoo.org (Ole Markus With) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/13 23:56, 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. > Gentoo has allowed its users to install multiple versions of PHP for a few years now, and also running multiple versions of php-fpm in parallel. So far it has not been that much of a problem to maintain, seemingly much easier than offering the same for ruby or python. - -- Ole Markus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRD1o8AAoJEGurSuXEqSv12rgH/j39u30ONtvZnarsuC9A6Pjp j/xjVTUrIIeNNKAjXQPxc8XgfJ9QBOTZxaZ6ZtocUMe4sLrwukal2o/njM7kmhSc VYpbhNYDbExX0Rq/7qMQn8fUialoOb45sv2RsCmCk6Abx4NRWPmLYMGU/FLUYwcS TBKHevQ6VsYDu/G85W26iyA3jpk8RTRk42mwrAtIePl0gNcpmbVHrNXhjhHF5tbB RRm5lHvpM2BO38xSh+wAqk+sqNuTTwj3elOGKhMbwICEzHIaIiaqq+Gu4jVwsAke Zz8R4qtfMXE4hDwIezIukAgye2GpK5WRe3wG9czMyO+xrv5Y+KkP3lRwobkxbeo= =2+mI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----