On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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. > > this is how we ended up in the current situation, where we don't really think that all those links are warranted, but we can't refuse to add another similar project (albeit I do think that adding phpuppet would create a new precedence with wider interpretation of "Binaries") when they ask for it. so I think that we will either eventually end up listing everything plus the kitchen sink, or we remove that block while we can. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
