Re: removal proposal: PHP 5.x, PHP 7.x

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 08:10:01PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I am not seeing that 5.6 and 7.x being in pkgsrc is causing trouble;
> there is no way we are going to stop being multiversion.

My request was triggered by a request on Friday that asked for a build
fix for ap-php for 5.6. As you can see on
https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/www/ap-php that was broken
around July.

If you check mef's bulk build:
http://www.ki.nu/pkgsrc/reports/current/NetBSD-9.0/20241126.1306/ap24-php74-7.4.33nb11/install.log
the php 7.4 version is not in better shape either.

According to mef again, 12 packages depend on ap-php, so they are
already broken for php 5.6 and 7.4.

So yes, actually there is currently trouble that needs fixing and
noone was interested in fixing it for half a year already.

If we want to claim support for old PHP, someone must spend the time
on it.
 Thomas