Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP 5 unstable ?

[Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>]

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Omer Cohen wrote:
> PHP 5.0 was released a long time ago, and alot of fixes and patches were
> released after it to make sure it's sable.
>
> According to PHP.net <http://PHP.net> the stable versions are PHP 5.0.4
> && 4.3.11
> 4.3.11 is marked stable, but 5.0.4 dosn't even exist on the tree.
>
> 5.0.0 isn't marked at all, and everything till 5.0.3-r2 is marked are
> hard masked and still being tested.
>
> It's been like this for a long time now.
>
> As a PHP developer I believe that 5.0.4 is more then stable, and should
> be added and marked stable.
>
> I don't wanna override the system and install it manualy.

Quite a lot has changed between PHP 4.3.x and 5.0.x.  Apparently, things
like classes are totally different.  The classes in PHP 5 more closely
resemble Java than the ones in PHP 4.

AFAIK the changes broke quite a few applications, and so PHP 5 isn't
very backward compatable in that regard.

Having said that... is it possible to install both PHP4 and PHP5
simultaneously?  I'd like to tinker with PHP5, but I don't want to
sacrifice PHP4 in the process.

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