On 05/10/2017 07:49 AM, Thore Boedecker via aur-general wrote: > As I am also providing hosting services on that server to a small group > of customers, the PHP 7 release was quite cumbersome. I had to find a way > to provide support for two different PHP versions on my server. > Gladly I found a fellow sufferer in Mickaël Thomas (mickael9 in the AUR) > and we started working on the php56 AUR package [1]. > It was a bit messy at first but in the end it worked out and I've been > running php56 together with the upstream Arch Linux php packages for over > a year now. I have been a co-maintainer of that package ever since and > tried to push the security releases out as quickly as possible. > > In order to retain as much features of php56 as possible, I created some > additional packages for that, which could co-exist with upstream > Arch repo packages as well: > > [2] php56-apcu > [3] php56-geoip > [4] php56-memcache > [5] php56-memcached > [6] php56-xdebug >
Just my $0.02, but those php56 packages have saved my ass with some php7-incompatible webapps and they were done in a clean way, so my kudos on that. -- brent saner http://www.square-r00t.net
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