Comment 40 for bug 1522422

On 26.01.2016 [19:57:31 -0000], Richard J. Turner wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2016 5:25 p.m., "Nish Aravamudan" <email address hidden>
> wrote:
> > - Users who do wish to have PHP 5, must use a PPA (Ondřej's or
> > otherwise).
>
> Or stick with the current LTS until they're in a position to adopt PHP
> 7.

Absolutely, sorry -- I should have called this out explicitly as an
option.

> At work we won't upgrade to Xenial until all our code is compatible with
> PHP 7, and then if Xenial doesn't ship a supported PHP 7 I'll recommend we
> switch to a distro that does, or install a supported 3rd party package like
> Zend Server. I imagine there are many PHP houses that will do the same. (I
> don't mean that to sound like an ultimatum, just illustrating a real world
> use case.)

This is excellent to understand, thank you for providing your input!

> PHP Mapscript is important to me, is there anything I can do to help with
> that?

I think once/if swig is updated, mapscript will too. If you can take a
look at the swig issue and help out there, that'd be great! Otherwise,
it's on my own todo list.