bindings for php 7

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 07:55:44PM +0000, Oliver Schonrock wrote:
> php7 has been released for a couple of months now.

SWIG needs to support PHP7 before Xapian sanely can.  The SWIG ticket
for this is:

https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/571

Someone offered to "take a stab at it" back in January.  I've not heard
anything since though.

> Happy to help as it is a key extension for us in production. Most
> interested in a FreeBSD port.

The platform shouldn't really make any difference.

Cheers,
    Olly