On 04/06/16 21:17, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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. > > Thanks for that - keeps the sysadmin side of me abreast of looming changes !
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