I know that nextcloud and nfsen work fine on 7.3. On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 04:29:32PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php > > PHP 7.1 will soon be end of life (no more security updates) so we need > to move the ports default version (i.e. the version used as a dependency for > most other PHP ports) to either 7.2 or 7.3. > > 7.2 is soon going to "security fixes only" mode with EoL due Nov 2020. > > 7.3 is still in "active support" mode but it's a bigger change. > > I'm pretty sure that some ports using PHP won't like 7.3 (and it's > not really possibly to identify these in advance) and will need to > be restricted to 7.2 but I think it would be better to do this on a > case-by-case basis and have the default set to the newer version. > > Any major opposition to this? > > Does anyone know of particular PHP ports in the tree that are already > known to fail with 7.3? > > Unfortunately we can't set ports to depend on "either 7.2 or 7.3". > ports/pkg_add allow "A or B" type choice, but don't allow "A+A1 or > B+B1 but not A+B1@ type choices which would be needed for correct > dependencies with this, and there's a further problem as the path > to the PHP interpreter (MODPHP_BIN) needs to point at a particular > version. So I think we're stuck with making a specific decision > for each port ("force X version or use the default").
-- Tracey Emery
