[my first answer was posted from my gmail account, so rejected] Max Bowsher schrieb: > 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. Well, postgresql is currently one big monolithic package. To make dependencies easier, I could provide the cygpg.dll client lib in a seperate libpg8 package, so that you could talk to a remote postgresql server at least. ok? > Given the above caveats, do you think I should proceed with the ITP > process, or not? sure. -- Reini - postgresql mainainer
