Hi Sriram, Any chance that the yp module can be revived? Seems like something we should support.
Dwayne Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Hi > > As you all know, initial integration of PHP within Open Solaris has > been done for some time now. Since then, we have been refining / > addressing the integration related issues for the last couple of months. > I believe that with build 86 (except for PEAR/PECL) support, basic > integration issues are mostly sorted out. Going forward, we have couple > of things planned and accordingly bugs have been filed for these . Here > are the currently identified list of features to look into : > > - PHP version update > > - PHP 5.2.6 will be released in the next couple of weeks. We do > plan to refresh our next integration with this version in the next > coming months > > - PEAR/PECl support > > - This extension will be available within Open Solaris along with > PHP 5.2.6 > > - OCI8 extension within PHP > > - We have currently requested Legal clearance on this extension. > Even if we didn't get legal approval, customers using PHP within Open > Solaris should be able to enable this extension once PEAR/PECL support > is made available (using pecl). > > - ADOdb extension (http://adodb.sourceforge.net/) can be bundled within > PHP on OpenSolaris > > - Should we bundle this ? Any comments ? +1 / -1 ? > > - imap / imap-ssl support within php for opensolaris > > - We have got Sun Legal approval to bundle this extension within Open > Solaris. This extension will be bundled along with PHP 5.2.6 integration. > > - include mcrypt with PHP > > - This extension requires MCrypt client libraries > (http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/) to be bundled within Open Solaris. > Since 'MCrypt' libraries are not available within Open Solaris, this > extension might take little longer to be integrated within PHP. So, I > would like to hear from community as to how important this extension is > to the users. Does 'mcrypt' modules are used within PHP in lot of > production sites ? Should we prioritize higher ? > > - integrate suhosin core php patch > > - Sushoin allows customers to harden their PHP runtime to protect > against different security vulnerabilities. This feature is available > partly as an extension and the rest as a "patch" to the php core engine. > With our current integration, we have only integrated the extension > support but have avoided patching the php core engine because of > potential performance impact. Here is a well written FAQ > (http://www.hardened-php.net/hphp/faq.html#general) on this topic. > Unless this patch is very much used in production systems, we are > currently not planning to integrate this patch within Open Solaris. If > you have any opinion on this topic, we very much love your views. > > - php unixODBC support > > - With the availability of PDO, ADOdb, not sure how many customers > are actually still deploying unixODBC these days. We are awaiting more > on community's feedback as to how important this extension is to our > customers before we spend time on this. > > - Including MySQL native driver for PHP - mysqlnd > > - I am currently investigating with respect to the benefit of using > / integrating this driver within PHP in Open Solaris. If you have any > thoughts / comments, feel free to chime in . > > - 64bit PHP > > - 64-bit PHP module for Apache 2.2 (64-bit) can be useful for > customers wanting to deploy a 64-bit solution . Is this very important ? > > - Performance Improvements ? > > - APC ? Any thing in particular that you would like us to look into ? > > > Your feedback / insight on any value add that we can provide within PHP > is much much appreciated as well. > > - Sriram > > _______________________________________________ > > > webstack-discuss mailing list > webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss >
