why Solus does not update php

arbims

Hello evryone
why Solus does not update php 7 to 8 despite it being a rolling distribution

Staudey

arbims Well for one thing because being a rolling distribution doesn't necessarily mean always living on the bleeding edge of software; just that it's continuously updated. Now, in this case, I'm sure we should look at an update soon-ish, because PHP 7.4 support ends in November (28.11.)

One other possible answer to your question: Because nobody on the team has gotten around to it, and no community contributor has submitted a patch.

EbonJaeger

Arcanist, the tool people use to submit, land, and interact with package update submissions also runs on PHP. I don't remember if there was an issue with using PHP 8 with that or not. I seem to remember someone looking into that before.

arbims

I built a php8.1.11 locally using the Solus repo from the existing PHP repo but how can I deploy this modification for the Solus community

kyrios

arbims https://getsol.us/articles/packaging/

GotExx

arbims If you could push PHP 8 that would be great! 😁

kaktuspalme

arbims I did the update to 7.4. As far as I remember there were problems with arcanist and PHP > 7.4. Not sure though. Can you test it with your build?