So how can we help? I've already offered a Jail at an AMD64 for the pointy-hat build-farm, but i didn't get a reply till now. If it's possible to help by letting a jail build packages contact me.gcooper@ said:The problem is that the ports tree is quite large and thus the number of packages that need to be built for each release is extremely large.
Contributing hardware and colo resources is what's needed to decrease the package building time; if that isn't done, then the ports freezes will continue to take eons to complete.
gcooper@ said:The problem is that the ports tree is quite large and thus the number of packages that need to be built for each release is extremely large.
Contributing hardware and colo resources is what's needed to decrease the package building time; if that isn't done, then the ports freezes will continue to take eons to complete.
I agree. PHP 5.3 was in fact a pre-release of PHP6 without unicode support. If it were called PHP6 and not PHP5.3, would that have changed Alex's mind ...? PHP5.3 is definitely worth a separate port!! See http://nl.php.net/migration53 for the impact of upgrading.chrcol said:Someone running portupgrade eg. going from 5.2.12 to 5.3.2 as if its a minor upgrade (when it isnt) will be in for a shock.
drm said:I agree. PHP 5.3 was in fact a pre-release of PHP6 without unicode support. If it were called PHP6 and not PHP5.3, would that have changed Alex's mind ...? PHP5.3 is definitely worth a separate port!! See http://nl.php.net/migration53 for the impact of upgrading.
dennylin93 said:I just skimmed through the upgrade notes, and it seems that the changes shouldn't affect too many people. Most of them are just new features.
This page lists all the incompatible changes: Backward Incompatible Changes.
aurora72 said:Just in case you wonder why I need to PHP 5.3.x, let me tell you that a new PHP Framework called "Ajax-IM" works only on PHP5.3+ and I want to try and use that FW on my FreeBSD.