[Maybe-ITP] PHP

[John Morrison]

On Thu, April 27, 2006 5:57 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
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> I don't have much of a liking for PHP myself, but seeing the large
> quantity of people who _do_ want it, and being the apache2 maintainer, I
> feel like I ought to at least make a bit of an effort to make it
> available.
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> So: I have prospective PHP packages building right now, but:
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> (1) I'm linking to postgresql. PHP without any SQL database interface
> would be a bit crippled - on the other hand, this requires *everyone*
> installing PHP to install PostgreSQL. It *ought* to be able to
> modularize the dependency into a sub-package, but persuading the
> extensions to build as DLLs is proving more complicated than I have time
> to tackle right now.
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> (2) I'm making no attempt to support Apache 1.x - it's pretty much in
> the terminal phase of its life-cycle, and I'm unwilling to spend much
> time working on it.
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> Given the above caveats, do you think I should proceed with the ITP
> process, or not?

Please, that would be most appreciated.  The 'limitations' arn't really
very bad :)

J.