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On 03/02/13 23:56, Florian Anderiasch wrote:
> On 03.02.2013 23:49, Thomas Bley wrote:
>> Using Debian/Ubuntu, I have "python2.6", "python2.7" and
>> "python3" packages, but only one version of "php5-fpm". Maybe it
>> would be better to have "php5.3-fpm" and "php5.4-fpm", using 
>> /etc/php5.3 and /etc/php5.4 ? Esp. for Travis-CI it would be much
>> better to have separate packages than running custom
>> workarounds.
> 
> I don't think you'd find many people here disagreeing with
> distribution maintainers providing packages for multiple version at
> the same time (like 5.3 and 5.4) - so that suggestion should be
> brought to these people. (I know, some are reading this list.)
> 
> I've never seen anyone on this list telling a distribution
> maintainer not to use /etc/php5.3 or something, please enlighten me
> if that's not the case.
> 

Gentoo has allowed its users to install multiple versions of PHP for a
few years now, and also running multiple versions of php-fpm in
parallel. So far it has not been that much of a problem to maintain,
seemingly much easier than offering the same for ruby or python.

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Ole Markus

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