Jordan,
This was a choice they made, yet the author of the Debian/Ubuntu packages
has side-by-side installable versions from 5.5-7.1 in his own PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php
It's not only currently feasible, it has been done, the _project_ chose not
to do it.
- Davey
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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
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Jordan Gigov wrote:
> Most developers who hope to move a site to PHP 7 will still have to
> maintain PHP 5 sites for a long time, requiring the presence of both.
> However, building either one, even with the `--program-suffix`
> configuration option still overwrites
I'll try to answer as best I can.
> Is it possible to extend that system also to minor and patch versions?
Extending it to allow minor versions would require some changes in
"scripts/phpize.m4" and "scripts/phpize.in" to make that information
available to extensions, without having to parse the ve
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jordan Gigov wrote:
> Most developers who hope to move a site to PHP 7 will still have to
> maintain PHP 5 sites for a long time, requiring the presence of both.
> However, building either one, even with the `--program-suffix`
> configuration option still overwrites
Hi Jordan.
Great Idea.
There are just a few questions I have:
* Is it possible to extend that system also to minor and patch versions?
* What effect has that on docker or vagrant systems? Especially on
maintainability of up-to-date versions that will have to symlink the
current version to a new
Most developers who hope to move a site to PHP 7 will still have to
maintain PHP 5 sites for a long time, requiring the presence of both.
However, building either one, even with the `--program-suffix`
configuration option still overwrites some files, like phpize and all the
headers in ${prefix}/inc
