On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:29:17PM +0300, Vladimir Zorin wrote: > It's a common need, especially among internet-hosting providers, to have > several different PHP versions installed on a server. ...
I think your request is fair, and I have no real problem with it. However, I do often question why people have multiple versions of PHP installed; it seems unnecessary with how badly-written PHP is to begin with (that is to say, the API may change, but usually the PHP authors simply add a new API function rather than break/tinker with existing ones). We're a hosting provider and have never run into any issues during PHP version migrations. People online everywhere exhibited signs of paranoia when it came to the PHP4 -> PHP5 upgrade, citing "major concerns" and all sorts of other hooplah. We migrated and absolutely no scripts on our system were impacted. At my workplace I did similar migration of PHP4 --> PHP5 on our operational/systems management machines, and ran into no issues as a result of the migration. (I did build XML support in, which turned out to break on our Solaris systems in an odd way, but that turned out to be the fault of the libxml2 library installed on those boxes and not PHP). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
