On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Now it is true that you don't need this in for plphp. But if you want php to have pg client support you need pg built first. And no sane packager is going to build php twice.
Actually, if you look through FreeBSD ports, this is exactly what happens ... when you build /usr/ports/devel/php4, it builds a "vanilla" php, no modules ... if you want pgsql support, you go into /usr/ports/databases/php4-pgsql, and build that (which has a dependency on lang/php4) ...
So, for plphp, a "port" would just have to install /usr/ports/lang/php4 to build, but would not necessarily build php4-pgsql ...
it is done this way to avoid packagers having to build a monolithich "contains everything" php4 ...
How ugly. [remaining comments unprintable]
That's a matter of opinion ... in our environment, it means that clients can enable/disable PHP features on a per VM basis without having to build a new PHP binary for each ... *shrug*
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