On 06/04/2016 04:03 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> > LOL - that still happens?! >
Yeah, at least in the U.S. There was a "PHP 6", but everything went so wrong that they decided to just pretend that the number 6 doesn't exist. > I still see php5 installed as stable everywhere .. so perhaps php7 still > has a little way to go (not that I would be *so* stupid to suggest that > something like 'debian' was a barometer of such things, nooo..!!!) We've still got 5.x stable, but that's because there's a security bug for PHP every 20 days and it takes 30 days to stabilize an ebuild. Here's a status report: * We've got the "eselect php..." stuff sorted out already so you can easily switch between 5.6 and 7.0 on-the-fly. * Most extensions have a version that works with php-7.0. * Some PECL extensions only work with certain versions of PHP, yet are not slotted. This will probably cause some headaches, but it's pretty late in the game and I don't have the time to overhaul the way we do extensions at the last minute. We may have to tell people that they can't switch between php-5 and php-7 with certain extensions (there are around 8 that cause problems). * The PHP upgrade itself is pretty harmless. Check your logs for deprecation warnings. If there aren't any, you can probably just switch to 7.0 with eselect and have everything work. It's a lot faster and a bit less stupid than previous versions. In any case, to bring this back on-topic, dev-lang/php now has a webp USE flag too, so +1 for making it global.