Re: Default PHP version.

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>]

In message <20130315115958.GA13649%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>
        on Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:59:58 +0100,
        Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:45:27PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
>> Is there any comment about it?
> 
> Hurry, freeze is on Sunday :)
> I think it's good.
I'll update it before Sunday.


In message <alpine.NEB.2.00.1303151300450.1195%korriban.imil.net@localhost>
        on Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:10:17 +0100 (CET),
        iMil <imil%home.imil.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> Today, PHP 5.3.22 and PHP 5.4.12 released.  Along with updating to
>> these version, I want to switch default version of PHP from 5.3 to
>> 5.4; make PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT to 54 default.
>>
>> Is there any comment about it?
> 
> Go for it!
Thanks.

> As an insight, I've migrated a lot of PHP 5.3 websites to 5.4
> and everything went smoothly, no regression, but most of all
> PHP 5.4 is an immediate performance boost. From the benchmarks
> I've ran, +10 to +20% speed without any other change than
> upgrading.
> Speaking of PHP 5.3, we recently met guys from Zend (the company
> behind PHP) who told us PHP 5.3 EOL is being discussed.
Sure.

One remaining problem might be lack of security/php-suhosin package.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>