php-5.2.1 and 4.4.6 on gentoo
March 6th, 2007
The ebuilds for them seem to get stabilized right now (just saw the commits from Opfer).
It was a stony way for php though. PHP-5.2 was not deemed ready for the tree as it had so many bugs. The version in the php overlay even used a cvs snapshot because adding all those patches from cvs manually was so hard. I really appreciate CHTEKK’s work (CHTEKK is actually the only maintainer when it comes to php ebuilds itself, as far as I know) very much. Although (or because? :p) it took some time, I think the ebuilds in the tree are very robust know. Suhosin support is available now and everything should have been tested, so I guess there won’t be big breakages. :p
I don’t know why I care about php @ gentoo that much as I did not (and do not want to) start any new projects based on php anymore, because Python is much nicer. :p
Of course I’ll continue to work on the existing big php project.. ;)
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