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thomasbilk

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Registered: 2012-01-01

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PHP 5.4 and 5.3 parallel install

Hello.

I am usually a Django developer so I am more at home in the Python world and I really appreciate that Arch offers both versions of Python, 2 and 3. But for my work I had to install a PHP CMS (Typo3) and so with that I had to install PHP. Unfortunately the version of Typo3 that we use is not compatible with the PHP that is in the Arch packages (5.4). I have noticed that there is PHP53 and even PHP52 in AUR but here is my question:

Is there any chance that there could be an official support for PHP-old or something, like there is of Python or the convenience package for PostgreSQL (postgresql-old-upgrade)?

Hope to hear your thoughts on that matter.

Thomas.

dolby

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Re: PHP 5.4 and 5.3 parallel install

Is PHP 5.3 supported upstream (like python) ?
Even if the answer to the above question is Yes, someone should be willing to maintain it in the binary repos, which doesnt seem to be the case.
If the answer is no then..no

Last edited by dolby (2012-10-26 11:03:29)

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thomasbilk

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Re: PHP 5.4 and 5.3 parallel install

As far as I can tell versions 5.4 and 5.3 are currently both the stable releases that are advertised on the php homepage and both seem to get updated, last time about one week ago.

dolby

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Re: PHP 5.4 and 5.3 parallel install

That seems to be the case.
Python 2: there are still apps depending on python2 so it has to stay in binary repos.
Postgresql-old-upgrade: a build for migrating between major versions with pg_upgrade.

You need to either:
a) find someone to maintain this in binary repos, which seems unlikely cause if someone did want to do it it would already be there.
But you never know.
b) apply to be a trusted user and maintain it in the community repo yourself
c) use the AUR package

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thomasbilk

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Re: PHP 5.4 and 5.3 parallel install

I guess since php53 only as two or three votes on AUR it would probably be pointless to add it to the community repo. I will go with option c and use the one from AUR.

Thank you very much for your time and advice.