Speaking here as a member of Debian php maintainers. I have read mentioned web pages and nothing has convinced me, that this is more then just proof of concept with no real application in the sensible world.
php5 is a language for creating web pages. Embedding language which a horrible design, constantly changes the API, with no common concept, is just a very bad idea. And I hope Ubuntu will never stray and package php5-embed on it's own, since it's not going to happen in Debian(*). There is a bunch of other programming languages suited for embedding - lua, python, ruby, even perl. Embedding php5 is just wrong. Don't do it. Ondrej * - unless current php maintainers all retire and new maintainers will lost their minds, or we are overruled by technical committee in which case I would probably retire as php maintainer -- [needs-packaging] php5-embed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191251 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs