On 03/24/16 01:56, Mike Jakubik wrote: > On 2016-03-23 08:42 PM, Guido Falsi wrote: >> On 03/24/16 01:09, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >>> ports tree. I guess i can try upgrading to 5.5 and hope that my >>> applications are compatible with it. Sigh, FreeBSD has become a PITA >>> lately to maintain unless everything installed is bleeding edge. In any >>> case, thanks for the help. >> >> Sorry I beg to disagree. >> >> php 5.4 is unsupported upstream, and 5.5 will EOL in a few months. You >> should complain to the php project about this, not the ports tree, which >> is just complying with upstream. > > You are correct, however I think php is a special case, because it's a > slow adopter, sadly a lot of hosting providers have not updated and a > lot of software is still not compatible with the latest versions. For > example, the default version of php in CentOS 7 is still 5.4, so I don't > see why removing it from ports was a good idea. >
The reason is it is not supported, bugs and vulnerabilities are not fixed, we would end up giving potentially insecure software, or even worse, software with known vulnerabilities. -- Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
