Hello, all (but especially the PHP/MapScript devs): Before I go to the trouble of trying to contact the Debian package maintainers, I'm posting my question here first, just in case someone in the Mapserver community has any information.
Everything I've seen on this list over the past few years has indicated that the best way to run PHP/MapScript is in CGI mode. Yet the Debian package maintainers seem to be under the impression that PHP/MapScript is most stable running in an Apache2 DSO, even going so far as to patch PHP/MapScript so that it refuses to run in a CGI (or even a CLI) environment. Does anyone have any idea why Debian's 'php5-mapscript' package maintainers have done this? Do they know something that I/we don't? Is PHP/MapScript not stable in PHP5 when run as CGI/CLI? I really would like to be able to run ka-map's 'precache2.php' script from the command line in Debian (or Ubuntu) without having to compile my own php_mapscript.so. Regards, -SM --
