Hi, 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 [1].
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. These changes also leave us well-placed for the next major release of PHP (possibly called PHP-6), which upstream 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 [2]. If you find any problems with the packages, please file bugs in Bugzilla as normal. We are aiming to remove the old dev-php/php-4* et al packages on 8th January 2006; support for non-security issues will cease two months earlier on 8th 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. Support for other architectures will follow as and when other arch teams can resource it; you can follow the progress in [3], and provide feedback to help the arch teams assess the stability of these packages. The PHP Overlay will continue to be the place where the PHP Herd does most of its development and testing. You'll find more packages in the Overlay than in Portage, and new versions of packages will be tested in the Overlay first. [1] http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/gentoo.php [2] http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php-overlay/ [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/102649 Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C --
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