From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao02.cox.net (fed1rmmtao02.cox.net [68.230.241.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3O4B4EB016299 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 04:11:04 GMT Received: from eagle.creatures.lan ([68.98.17.33]) by fed1rmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050424041054.YOTY22430.fed1rmmtao02.cox.net@eagle.creatures.lan> for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:10:54 -0400 Received: from [192.168.99.11] (cheetah.creatures.lan [192.168.99.11]) by eagle.creatures.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA4C27085 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:42:56 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <426B1D9A.2050505@cox.net> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:16:26 -0700 From: "D. Wokan" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP 5 unstable ? References: <30e6169805042204576e947584@mail.gmail.com> <30e6169805042205121e58636f@mail.gmail.com> <4268EB7C.2050106@longlandclan.hopto.org> <4268EF5C.6060806@pnpitalia.it> <20050422134525.25bee3f6@snowdrop> <426A0E88.3020202@cox.net> <1114247248.13350.35.camel@sponge.fungus> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 983bf5c9-0b9d-469f-8452-dfee3a06d132 X-Archives-Hash: 6e26a743b5c8db3e7122538e510879f2 Collins Richey wrote: >On 4/23/05, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > > >>According to bugzilla, there are lots of open bugs (132 to be exact) >>containing the word 'php' in the summary. From a quick glimpse many of >>them seem related to php-5. >> >> >> > >Looks like your're 100% right. One user does not a stable release >make. The open PHP bugzillas seem to be roughly in three groups: > >1. Need testing with (pick one of a dozen major PHP addon packages). >Users could certainly help with this. >2. PHP5 ebuild problems (ebuild not working yet and/or dependancy >problems with other packages). >3. Actual failure to compile and/or run with certain packages. > >I'm sure developers will eventually get to 2 & 3, but there are too >many bugs and too little time. > >Since many of these bug reports aren't even assigned yet, I would say >that PHP5 is certainly not a stable package for Gentoo. > >My $.02. Quichurbellyachin and get testing and debugging if you want a >stable release. > > > Fair enough. And thank you for filling me in on the criteria for "stable". Now, I'll just count myself as one of the lucky ones instead. I'll go look into these open bugs, but I doubt I'll be in any position to contribute much to their closure. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list