I’ve been asked a lot this week to provide another PHP5 status update.
Stabilisation has had to take a back seat recently, as there’s been a number of PHP security fixes to process instead.
I’m in the process of finishing off our new script for managing the symlinks for PHP, and adding support so that it will switch mod_php4 and mod_php5 in Apache and Apache2 for you. I want it to be in the overlay for at least a week so that we can catch any serious bugs. If anyone uses amd64 w/ multilib, I could use your help in making sure the new script works correctly for you.
So I’m aiming for next weekend to be able to announce a new date for stabilising dev-lang/php and PHP 5.
Even though dev-lang/php is not stable, I’d encourage everyone to add the necessary entries to package.keywords and make the switch sooner rather than later.
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