Re: should default php version be higher?

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

In message <rmimst4btow.fsf%s1.lexort.com@localhost>
	on Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:05:35 -0500,
	Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> I realize that while many packages are ok with newer, and newer is
> usually better, some packages probably are lagging.  I do not understand
> the details or PHP culture.
After release of PHP 8.0, its release plan is very clear.

	https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

2 years active support and 1 year security fix only.

> which says:
> 
>   74 is fully EOL (as of late 2022)
>   80 is fully EOL (as of late 2023)
>   81 is security-fix-only (as of late 2023)
>   82 is current, active suport ends December 2024
>   83 is current, active support ends December 2025
It is one of my TODO list that removing old PHP, 8.0 is the most easy.

> However, I wonder if we should be moving to 82 now (rather than in late
> February), to try to maintain a stance of "default php in pkgsrc is a
> fully-supported version".   But I don't know how much that will break,
> and I don't have cycles to pick up the pieces.
We should switch 8.2 for now.

-- 
Takahiro Kambe <taca%NetBSD.org@localhost>