On 26.01.2016 [19:57:31 -0000], Richard J. Turner wrote: > On 26 Jan 2016 5:25 p.m., "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamu...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > - Users who do wish to have PHP 5, must use a PPA (Ondřej's or > > otherwise). > > Or stick with the current LTS until they're in a position to adopt PHP > 7.
Absolutely, sorry -- I should have called this out explicitly as an option. > At work we won't upgrade to Xenial until all our code is compatible with > PHP 7, and then if Xenial doesn't ship a supported PHP 7 I'll recommend we > switch to a distro that does, or install a supported 3rd party package like > Zend Server. I imagine there are many PHP houses that will do the same. (I > don't mean that to sound like an ultimatum, just illustrating a real world > use case.) This is excellent to understand, thank you for providing your input! > PHP Mapscript is important to me, is there anything I can do to help with > that? I think once/if swig is updated, mapscript will too. If you can take a look at the swig issue and help out there, that'd be great! Otherwise, it's on my own todo list. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to php5 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522422 Title: Update to php 7.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/1522422/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
