Simultaneous PHP4/PHP5 support in Gentoo
The PHP Herd is pleased to announce that it has added new packages to
Portage which will allow Gentoo to provide stable PHP4 and PHP5 packages
on the same box at the same time. These packages have come from the
successful PHP Overlay[12]. At the heart of these packages is the new
dev-lang/php package (which will replace the existing dev-php/php,
dev-php/php-cgi, and dev-php/mod_php packages), and the new dev-php4 and
dev-php5 categories which allow us to provide, and support, PHP extensions
and frameworks that are specific to each version of PHP.
12. http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/gentoo.php
These changes also leave us well-placed for the next major release of PHP
(possibly called PHP-6), which upstream developers are currently brewing.
We hope to move these packages to ~arch (on architectures that the PHP
Herd supports) on Thursday 8th September, as part of our migration
plans[13]. If you find any problems with the packages, please file bugs in
Bugzilla as normal.
13. http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php-overlay/
We are aiming to remove the old dev-php/php-4* et al packages on 8 January
2006; support for non-security issues will cease two months earlier on 8
October 2005. The older dev-php/php-5* et al packages have been removed
today; anyone still using these packages should move across to the new
dev-lang/php package.
