php 7

[cognitus]

Hello,

There is a plan for implement php 7 on mageia 6? I ask because now a lot packages require that version for example laravel...

[doktor5000]

Hi, no there are no such plans, especially since mga6 is already released.
If you want you can read some discussion and the reasoning for that on the dev mailing list: http://lists.roundcube.net/pipermail/us ... 11233.html

But there are some people that already built php7 on mga5 for themselves, see e.g. https://itroger.wordpress.com/2017/04/0 ... ond-round/

[doktor5000]

mmm so the main reason was swig... after see the issues in github, now swig can be compiled with php7...
so please review support, after all a lot packages by default have minimum requirement php7.

finally, if I compile from source is possible uninstall?

[doktor5000]

so please review support, after all a lot packages by default have minimum requirement php7.

As mentioned there are no such plans, so I doubt this will come to mga6. Although you can contribute to cauldron and add php7 support if you really want this. See http://www.mageia.org/contribute/

finally, if I compile from source is possible uninstall?

Why shouldn't it be possible? But you would have to check the upstream documentation, good starting point should be https://secure.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php

[cognitus]

so please review support, after all a lot packages by default have minimum requirement php7.

As mentioned there are no such plans, so I doubt this will come to mga6. Although you can contribute to cauldron and add php7 support if you really want this. See http://www.mageia.org/contribute/

fine, I ported the package from other distro and it works on Mga6

Spoiler:

so, i'm going to upload for review

[morgano]

Way to go. I love when we get new contributors . Welcome!

[cognitus]

after all, it's complex setting up mgarepo :s
I uploaded patch, source and spec file to github https://github.com/cognitus/php7-mga
I tried to set php 7.1.x but has a various new modules(?), so I prefer other user look up for it or maybe import from another distro later...

Ps: sry for eng :@

[flink]

How is the current status for porting PHP 7 to Mageia 6?

@cognitus: Did you already provide the rpm package as described under http://www.mageia.org/contribute/ ?

I cannot find a backport testing php7:

E.g. I see this package:

php-mbstring-5.6.30-2.mga6

http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mageia/ ... yName.html

I thought that Mageia 6 would already have PHP 7. I need this new PHP, because the most recent TYPO3 CMS requires PHP 7 as a minimum.

[cognitus]

How is the current status for porting PHP 7 to Mageia 6?

@cognitus: Did you already provide the rpm package as described under http://www.mageia.org/contribute/ ?

I cannot find a backport testing php7:

E.g. I see this package:

php-mbstring-5.6.30-2.mga6

http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mageia/ ... yName.html

I thought that Mageia 6 would already have PHP 7. I need this new PHP, because the most recent TYPO3 CMS requires PHP 7 as a minimum.

No I don't provide it,

they have ported php 7 to mageia cauldron, i didn't know they have to mageia 6. If you use my repo in github, php works without problem

[doktor5000]

How is the current status for porting PHP 7 to Mageia 6?

See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19614 and maybe part of https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21916
Current cauldron state can be seen at http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/php/current/

If it's added to the distro, it probably will only be added to cauldron, but not be backported to mga7 via official repos.

[flink]

If it's added to the distro, it probably will only be added to cauldron, but not be backported to mga7 via official repos.

This is still bad news. PHP 7 has been out for more than 2 years already.

https://entwickler.de/online/php/php-7- ... 93110.html

And nobody knows when Mageia 7 will be finally available. It can take more than one year. Cauldron is not stable to be used by now.

What can be done to backport the PHP 7.1 package for Mageia 6?

[doktor5000]

What can be done to backport the PHP 7.1 package for Mageia 6?

You can rebuild it yourself under mga6, as with any other package.
I've described briefly how to rebuild an src.rpm here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5530