From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 14:50:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D473E16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:50:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from com-and.com (relay.andxor.it [195.223.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DB0543D4C for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:50:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 38158 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2005 14:50:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.5?) (192.168.2.5) by com-and.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2005 14:50:15 -0000 Message-ID: <41E7DC26.6040305@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:50:14 +0100 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041229) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?= References: <41E7AF5A.3020603@portaone.com> <41E7D58B.8020905@vslash.com> In-Reply-To: <41E7D58B.8020905@vslash.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Maxim Sobolev Subject: Re: PHP ports/packages framework is seriously flawed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:50:22 -0000 Valéry wrote: > i'm not from FreeBSD, but if i can advise you : > php is *very scalable*, and before having all > options you want, you must build it 5 or 6 times. > I'm using 4.3.4 Then, build it another time, 4.3.4 has a lot of serious bugs. FYI, you can install new extensions without rebuild php, using the ports. > and it was compiled not from > the BSD ports, but from the php.net sources. > The 1st reason is that - i think - a port cannot show > you every configuration you want, specially with > php ; there's a lot of '3rd part software' with > php. Ever tried lang/php4-extensions? > The second one is that compiling php in > this way is not difficult, php is well done, > and well documented, and you'll get > exactly what you expect from php (eg GD, XML, > XSL, CLI or CGI, ...). Same with ports, without messing the filesystem. > More, you can patch your php without waiting > a new port, and this is important for security. Sure, this is the reason you have 4.3.4 version and the port is at 4.3.10, right? :-) -- Alex Dupre