Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:13:26AM -0400, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:
As for the repo: I thinkn 'php' should point to the most recent version. If somebody wants to maintain a 2nd repo for an older / outdated version, this one should move to a different name (so that would be 'php' for php 5.4 and php53 for php 5.3... always keeping the new one in the 'right place' allows for the users to stay on one
Definitely, but IMHO this depends a little bit on if we want to ship php 5.4 in factory or if it should only stay in, say, devel:language:php54 testing repo for now.
The decision should be rather simple: Factory currently targets openSUSE 12.2 + 1 (12.2 was split off, so Factory targets the next version to come). Timeframe: realistically not under 8 months :)
So what would be the status of PHP 5.4 by then? Acceptable for wide audience? If so: by all means! Go for it in Factory.
What will the status regarding maintenance of 5.3 be by that time? Any risk of being dropped in short term? If so: by all means: don't have 5.3 in Factory for the next release...
To get some better feeling about the update, it might be worthy to get some overview what all breaks. There is surely a lot of packages that are expected to be working (horde/imp, phpmyadmin, [...])
Wordpress, mediawiki, roundcube - there is plenty. The list of backward incompatible changes is interesting, although I don't know which of these are actually likely to cause problems :-( http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org