Tim Spriggs wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > If it is already packaged then the question begging to be asked is, > "why is the package not part of the Debian repository?" Because of possible patent infringement in eAccelerator itself. It could be risky in the US to publish it. Andrew says more here (but I feel he is wrong): http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/node/70#comment-229
I also have to specify that Andrew is no longer able to give the packages so much care he did in the past, Real Life hit again. > Barring any crazy hacks/skeletons in the source package, I would say > it fits with the server scheme of NCP if you are willing to maintain > it there. > > > If you compile/test/upload the package I'll look through it and see if > anything jumps out at me. One recommendation I have is regarding > versions: the package should depend tightly on the version of php5 it > is built against. I found a post [2] which seems to suggest this may > not be the case by default. Also a debian thread [3] on the subject > seems to shed some light on the version issue. Yes, it is tightly linked to a version of PHP. In clear, you have to rebuild it everytime your rebuild PHP, which may be several times a year given security fixes. Yet, it really improves PHP speed, so is really important for any real PHP usage. As I read more on the subject, I'm wondering if I should not be using another opcode cacher now. Some of them are already officially packaged for Debian (like XCache), or are meant to be integrated in PHP6 (APC, read http://davidwalsh.name/php6). Previously, I used Zend Optimizer (which is not Free Software) and APC. > Cheers, > -Tim > > [2] http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/node/70 > [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/01/msg00422.html > > > Jerome Warnier wrote: >> I just tried to port the package for eAccelerator (php5-eaccelerator >> from Andrew McMillan[1]). >> It works as soon as you add the following option to configure: >> --with-eaccelerator-userid=www-data >> >> As this is not an official package from Ubuntu, would it have its place >> somewhere in Nexenta? >> >> [1] http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian/ _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
