Please add ebuild with php 7.1 support.
Hey Denis, I think we could upgrade the ebuild to remove the USE_PHP="php5-6" as twig suggest to use >=php-5.2.7 [1]. But the constraint is here on purpose, see that commit message 8c4b6858a1, in brief it is needed to build the C extension of Twig: ``` But the new ebuild also adds a feature, the ability to build the C extension for Twig. In older versions of PHP, the C implementation provides improved performance over the pure-PHP implementation. The only "older version" we support is php:5.6, so the C extension is only built when the user's PHP_TARGETS contains "php5-6". The extension will only be built with USE=extension; otherwise users who did not want the extension would be required to add "php5-6" to PHP_TARGETS in order to appease our eclass. Upstream does not currently support building the extension against php:7.0 or php:7.1, but the performance improvement is not so great with those versions of PHP anyway. ``` But the last version of twig suggest php-7 so it should work with this branch, but I am not sure for the php5 branch. [1]: https://packagist.org/packages/twig/twig#v1.29.0 [2]: https://packagist.org/packages/twig/twig
^ what he said. The USE_PHP variable (and your PHP_TARGETS) matters only for C extensions to PHP, not for regular PHP code. PHP is different than python and ruby in that respect. The C extension for Twig only works with php-5.6, so we only need php5-6 in USE_PHP. That's not a big problem because Twig does work with php-7.x, and it's so fast that you don't need the C extension! If you install the current version of Twig, it should work fine with php-7.1.
