Max Bowsher <maxb1-B2Gdhv0Jo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > So: I have prospective PHP packages building right now, but: > > > (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. > > > (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. > > Given the above caveats, do you think I should proceed with the ITP > process, or not?
Please do. PHP 4.x is not a very well designed, but PHP 5.x has decent class support for writing reusable code. Jari
