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Seems to be more about Apple telling people what is and isn't recommended software.

• csande17 6y ago
  It's easier to understand this if you know that the `php` binary bring invoked is the one shipped with the operating system. They've introduced similar messages for other interpreter binaries. I think the intent here is to say "relying on this copy of PHP is not recommended", or maybe "shipping a standalone PHP script to end users is not recommended".
  • sukilot 6y ago
    The intent is clearly stated: MacOS provided php is deprecated and slated for removal. Quit using it before it quits you.
  • spanhandler 6y ago
    Yeah, like, pretend you're looking at a message in a FreeBSD base system's documentation or something. They're just saying "don't write new shit that relies on macOS system PHP, because it's going away"—it is... not recommended! As pointed out in the thread, it says the same thing for Python2 (though only if you run it bare for some reason, not with --version, and obviously only if you're invoking the system Python2, not something from e.g. Homebrew) so it seems to just be the message they use for anything that's deprecated and expected to vanish from macOS installations in the future. I bet the same message is used a bunch of other places. I'd be kind of horrified if anyone's writing PHP on a mac that is not targeting the system's PHP specifically, but is using it. You want whatever version's gonna be on your deployment target, not what happens to ship with your OS installation. Included scripting languages are there so you can write scripts targeting the OS, not develop with them generally. You could, but it's not what most people are going to want.
• sergiomattei 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure this is just bad wording, and what they mean is "using the bundled PHP version isn't recommended". People are really bringing up the pitchforks over nothing...