2012/3/28 Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]>: > Le mercredi 28 mars 2012 14:09:47, Oliver Burger a écrit : >> It can now be discussed, why php-mysql and php-pgsql do not require php >> itself and a webserver. > > for php I don't know, but there's no reason why a php package would require > a web server. PHP can be used as a CLI scripting language. > That's why I wrote "Other distros - iirc fedora - do provide a php package for use with a webserver and another one for use on the cli. Php itself can be used as a script language on the command line as well."
I'm not so sure about the "right" requirements here. I do think, php-mysql and php-pgsql should require php, as afaik they can't be used standalone. So perhaps we should have a mediawiki requiring a php enabled webserver. And php-mysql and php-pgsql and so on requiring php. Do we have a webserver that can use php except apache? I know there's lighttpd and nginx, but can you use php with them? I don't know them at all. Oliver
