Outstanding point. The thing is this: With MS PHP is clearly distinct from the OS. I go get it from php.org. With BSD I must rely on the package system.
Respectfully Submitted, R. Toby Richards Network Administrator Superior Court of California In and for the County of San Luis Obispo (805) 781-4150 ________________________________________ From: Ted Unangst [t...@tedunangst.com] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 8:41 PM To: Richards, Toby Cc: Mike Erdely; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading OpenBSD On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 19:20, Richards, Toby wrote: > Will pkg_add -ui upgrade between major releases, such as php 5.2.x => 5.3.x? > When I upgraded OpenBSD 4.9 => 5.0, there was a huge issue because > it supported both PHP 5.2.x AND 5.3.x. I'd have loved to seamlessly > upgraded to 5.3.x, but the support of both made it nearly > impossible. If you had php 5.2 installed on Windows NT, would upgrading to win2k have upgraded php to 5.3 at the same time? I think your expectation that upgrading the OS will upgrade the applications is a little warped, because it's clearly not what happens with commercial operating systems.
