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Re: Musings on PHP


Robert Richter wrote:
I didn't really intend to package PHP, but having got this far, I sort of
feel I ought to.
Which brings me to two major issues concerning any potential Cygwin PHP
package:

1) Two apache versions.

I've no interest in Apache 1.3.x. Can I just package PHP for 2.x, and worry
about 1.3.x only if a potential maintainer steps forward?



I already got a PHP 4.3.10 version running on Apache 1.3.x and plan to add PHP to the Apache 1.3.x release. I am not sure if this is the best solution but maintenance effort decreases.

In the same package?
That doesn't seem like a good idea.
That is likely to confuse users, and will lead to unnecessarily large updates when one of Apache/PHP needs to be updated, but the other does not.


On the other side a
separate package could be included also by Apache2 and package
conficts would be avoided.

I don't understand how this will avoid conflicts?
Although I have never explicitly tried, at the moment, it should be possible to install and run both apache1 and apache2 simultaneously.
If there are to be two independent PHP packages, we need to avoid file name conflicts between them, just like no files in the apache & apache2 packages share names.


Max.


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