[arch-dev-public] [draft] PHP 5.3 enters [extra]

[Pierre Schmitz]

Here is a draft for an announcement about the new php packages we currently 
have in testing. They will be moved together with the libldap and postgres 
rebuilds.
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The new major PHP 5.3 release is finally available in the [extra] repository. 
This update will require manual adjustments:
* update your php.ini; see php.ini.pacsave as reference
* module path is now /usr/lib/php/modules
* session, mbstring and zlib are now built in
* the fileinfo module is now built in and no longer a separate package
* mysqlnd is anabled; so libmysqlclient is no longer needed
* Setting default-character-set in my.cnf may cause encoding problems
* Set date.timezone in php.ini
* third party extensions need to be updated
* There are also new versions of the suhosin and apc extension
  make sure to review their configuration as well

PHP was split into the following packages:
* php
* php-apache
* php-cgi
* php-curl
* php-enchant
* php-gd
* php-gmp
* php-intl
* php-ldap
* php-mcrypt
* php-odbc
* php-pear
* php-pgsql
* php-pspell
* php-snmp
* php-sqlite
* php-tidy
* php-xsl

If you are using php on a webserver you either need the cgi or apache sapi. 
The sqlite package includes the sqlite3 drivers; the legacy sqlite2 drive is 
included in the php package itself.
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Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre