From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 19:37:54 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 AE2F416A4CE; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:37:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vslash.com (gambetta-2-82-67-185-6.fbx.proxad.net [82.67.185.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FC543D2D; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:37:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from valery@vslash.com) Received: from [192.168.0.22] (oxe [192.168.0.22]) by mail.vslash.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E141DA00; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:41:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41E81F7F.8020908@vslash.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:37:35 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dupre References: <41E7AF5A.3020603@portaone.com> <41E7D58B.8020905@vslash.com> <41E7DC26.6040305@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <41E7DC26.6040305@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: ports@freebsd.org 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 19:37:54 -0000 Sorry it was just some advice of a poor lonesome com-boy, many thanks for yours, i add them to my "Good things to do in 2005" :o) v/ Alex Dupre wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >