not quite minimalistic enough  

Not surprising.

So the PHP people, in a display of cleverness akin to that generally displayed in the development of their product, have put their downloads behind an automated guess at the “human-ness” of the client.

This obviously broke all automated updating everywhere, including by the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Very helpful, that.

Their bug tracker is apparently on its Christmas holiday, too.

Written on December 24, 2021