Re: thoughts on php5?

I would hang on to php4 with Gentoo for awhile longer. Right now, if
you try to upgrade, you will have some work cut out for you. The
Apache Herd has changed how Gentoo lays out the config files, so you
will have to do some updateing. There is also a new package that is
supposed to be a default htdocs with a index.html page that will wipe
out one you may have that is installed with Apache. You will have to
allow for several packages from test, and mod_php is hard masked. I
tried to document my process here.
[http://www.cyberward.net/blog/archives/254-Upgrade-of-PHP-to-version-5.html]
I do have it working on a dev server, but not tested well.

Chris

> Erik Anderson wrote:
> > At work, we've been happily running php-4.3.6 for about a year, and
> > it's worked great for us.  (just for reference, we're running gentoo
> > linux and apache-2.0.52-r1)  Lately, we've been tossing around the
> > idea of upgrading to php5.
> >
> > The main driving force behind this is our desire to use mnoGoSearch,
> > which, if I want to stay within Gentoo's portage system (which I do),
> > is only possible if we upgrade to php5.  Yes, I know, it's always
> > possible to download and compile php4 with mnoGoSearch support myself,
> > but I'd much rather stay within portage.  Which leads me to my
> > question:
> >
> > What are your experiences with upgrading to php5?  Have you had any
> > major issues?  Any pitfalls/gotchas to avoid?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Erik Anderson