Re: [ITP] PHP 5.1.4 (cli, cgi-fcgi, apache2)

[Max Bowsher <maxb1 at ukf dot net>]

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> # php-apache2
>> category: Web
>> requires: php apache2
>> external-source: php
>> sdesc: "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (Apache 2 module)"
>> ldesc: "PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is
>> especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."
> 
> May I suggest that this package be named apache2-php instead?  Since it
> is a apache2 module, it would seemingly be easier to find together with
> everything else apache2-*.
> 
> Of course, surely someone will come up with a good reason why
> php-apache2 makes more sense, and more certainly, either way will be
> bound to lead to questions by those expecting the opposite. :-)

Well, the only precedent we have for this is one which I myself set a
while ago with the subversion-apache2 package.

Personally, I think of it as a package which _is_ PHP, and happens to
interface with apache2, so I placed the bit which seemed more
significant to me first.

My guess is that naming it php-something is better than something-php,
because it will help people who go looking for just "php" to find it.

Max.

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