I can see your argument for using prefix, but that would not provide a solution to package maintainers who may want to give their users a choice. I was recently surprised when upgrading from Ubuntu 14 to 16 that it replaced PHP 5 with 7 entirely. They were forced into choosing between the two at a time when most developers will have to maintain both versions for several more years for different projects.
And what do you mean --program-suffix is broken? What do you get and expect to get? With or without my changes it seems work as intended. 2016-09-02 18:28 GMT+03:00 Levi Morrison <le...@php.net>: > The issue is that you are writing to the same prefix. Just write them > to different prefixes and reference them separately. This is not a > unique-to-php situation. At work we maintain many different > simultaneous versions of Python, for example. > > With that said it looks like the program suffixes are broken. If > --program-suffix=7 is set then I'd expect php7, phpize7 (or php7ize, > don't really care), etc. >
