On Aug 20, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Aug 20, 2009, at 13:19, Scott Haneda wrote:
Excuse any spelling or brevity, I am mobile.
You were quite loquacious. :)
Just had to make me look that up :)
What I am not understanding is why a port installed | grep php
shows me the same lines as above in my OP.
I would think that with this new method it would just show php5 and
no variants. It would list the other installs that are seperate
ports, but doesn't the php5+foo+bar style installed list go away
and I should see:
php5
php5-whatever
...
The variants have been kept in the php5 port as stubs for now. If
you select them, they advise you to install the separate module
ports instead. This is so that users upgrading from the previous
"monolithic" php5 port will not suddenly lose a lot of features they
wanted and not know how to get them back.
This is not entirely successful, though. I'm not only moving
variants to module ports; I'm also moving some features that were
previously always-on, and users get no notification of this, other
than certain PHP functions no longer being available. I might have
rethink this lack of notification, and remove all the stub variants
and have php5 always print a message after install advising users to
view the selection of module ports and install needed ones.
If I have the ability to just not care, and want to be as clean as I
can, what do I do? sudo port uninstall all the php and apache stuff,
then a sudo port install apache2 and then sudo port install php5 and
from there just port install whatever php5-*'s I want to use?
Thanks for all your work on this, this to me, seems a much better way
to go. Every time I had to go back and add in some library to php, I
worried. It was a little rough for me to deal with on live servers,
where who knows if a config file will get nuked and need to be pulled
from a backup.
This seems a very nice way to go moving forward.
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