Re: upgrade glitches with php, maybe

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 08:22:23AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>> Maybe you've been lucky.  It's what you have to do in the general case
>> as upstreams change things.
>
> Speaking about PHP, they have been remarkably backward-compatible 
> when it comes to php.ini. I have been reusing the same files since
> PHP 5 and never had any problem. I had to search for diffs only
> because pkgsrc, and not upstream PHP, broke it.

That's surprising, given that php8x can't run a lot of programs written
for 56 and the language itself hasn't been so backward compatible.

There are 137 non-comment non-blank lines in php.ini-production.
Perhaps they really haven't changed since 5, but it doesn't seem safe to
not understand ones changes and merge them forward.