On 01/15/2011 12:55 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2011-01-05 7:21 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> A ton of crap broke with the PHP 5.2 -> 5.3 upgrade. In theory, this >> will help with future upgrades; but I'm not sure how, since I can't >> *run* both versions at the same time. Does anyone know how having 5.3 >> installed will help me when I'm stuck running 5.2 for some of my sites? > > I don't think this is correct... from the PHP upgrade guide: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-guide.xml > > "2. Slotting > > Minor version slotting > > The php team decided to ease the transition between PHP-5.2 and PHP-5.3 > by allowing users to install both versions concurrently. Using the cgi > or FPM SAPI, you can even serve web pages utilizing PHP-5.2 and PHP-5.3 > (or PHP-5.4 once it's released) at the same time. > > For implementing minor version slotting, we chose an approach similar to > that of the ruby team --- you can set a global variable PHP_TARGETS to > control which slots you want and manage the active version via an > eselect module (see chapter 3)" >
Oh, thanks, that makes sense. The next time PHP breaks everything I'll do some experimenting to see if mod_php and the new fpm SAPI can run in parallel.
