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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:12:16 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/php Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-message pkg-plist ports/lang/php/files patch-configure patch-sybase.c ports/lang/php/scripts configure.php
Message-ID:  <20001221191215.C7974@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20001221171220.A31966@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>; from dirk@freebsd.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:12:21PM %2B0100
References:  <200012191400.eBJE04q18423@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001221171220.A31966@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>

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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:12:21PM +0100, Dirk Froemberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Do we really need a standalone version?
> 
> If we need a standalone version it should have been done as a
> slave port for mod_php3. lang/php is a copy of mod_php3 basically...
> BTW. there is php4 already.

Well, I at least find PHP to be quite handy for quick-and-dirty
scripting, especially when SQL is involved.  Also quite useful
for testing stuff before you stick it into a CGI :)

And yes, I've been thinking about making it a slave port; maybe
in a few days' time (too much real life / real work issues right
now; funny how people pick such weird dates as New Year for project
deadlines, isn't it ;)

About PHP4 - hmf.  I've not tried recent versions, but I was VERY
unhappy with 4.0 and 4.0.1.  Most of the issues are probably already
fixed in newer releases, but I do not feel like testing - especially
if testing means eventually deploying it on a production server,
and finding the hard way that there's still something missing
(sad headshake in recollection of a 4:30 AM 'it ain't working' phone
call, only to find a script hogging all of CPU and all of memory
with the single purpose of producing an endless stream of 'Zend
interpreter internal error' messages..)  Like the saying goes,
"if it ain't broken, don't fix it" - and PHP3 feels quite unbroken
to me :)

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence was in the past tense.


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