On 15 July 2014 08:55, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net> wrote: > >> On 14 July 2014 10:46, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On 14 July 2014 18:12, Juan Treminio <jtremi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > I am the owner/maintainer of the FOSS project PuPHPet, which allows >> > > developers to quickly (and hopefully, easily) create highly-customized >> > > virtual machines using Vagrant and Puppet. Right now the project leans >> > > heavily in favor of PHP-specific builds, but in the near future I >> wish to >> > > add other languages as well, while keeping PHP as the main focus. >> > > >> > > The URL is https://puphpet.com >> > > Github is https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet >> > >> > >> > +1 on adding PuPHPet to the sidebar on http://php.net/downloads.php >> > >> > While we’re there, let’s add dotdeb.org and Ondřej’s repos to the list. >> > >> > Objections? >> >> http://deanhunt.com/wp-content/uploads/do-it.png >> >> Adam >> >> -- >> PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > Hi, > > I've already mentioned this on irc (I wasn't aware that there is a thread > about it), but I don't think that it is a good idea to add this to the list. > Adding this would be a precedence for adding http://phansible.com/ and > every other project which has anything to do with virtualization and php. > That block was originally added to link to MacOSX binaries where it > wasn't available by default nor common for the users to build php for > themself: > > http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=commit;h=e2c704cf3885819fb8f06fc5c8814c2e52c4c234 > Little by little, we ended up in a situation, where we even list > alternative repos for linux distros where php is already available from the > distributor, and multiple amp stack for the same platform. > Given how much do we suck keeping that list up-to-date, and people are > willing to fight tooth and nail to get listed there, if anything I would > like to see that block to be removed. > What do you think? >
If we're going to refuse adding projects like PuPHPet and friends, then I'd say that those sidebar links have outlived their usefulness. I certainly don't want it to look like we're giving preferential treatment to the [wxm]ampp? family, to the exclusion of more fashionable ways of setting up a PHP dev env today. > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >
