Hi I do see a considerable value add for bundling ZF 1.5 within our Web Stack. I will be soon proposing an ARC case to integrate PHP 5.2.6 along with other extensions. I will include this support at the time
Thanks Sriram Chris Lash wrote: > Sriram, > > Good day to you. > > Here is a recent press announcement on Zend Framework 1.5. > > http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/press/zend-technologies-releases-zen > d-framework-with-significant-enhancements-for-building-modern-web-applic > ations > > As you may have noted, ZF will be included in Ubuntu's new release in > April. Also looking to have it released to Fedora. ZF has a BSD like > license and about 400 committers at this point. > > If you need any more background, I've copied Brad Cottel who is the > chief evangelist. > > I hope this helps. > Regards, > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sriram.Natarajan at Sun.COM [mailto:Sriram.Natarajan at Sun.COM] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 3:58 PM > To: Chris Lash > Subject: Re: PHP & why not ad- Zend Framework?? > > Chris > Thanks for bringing it up. Yes, I will definitely investigate more on > this topic and get back to you and the Web Stack community. > > thanks > Sriram > > Chris Lash wrote: > >> Siriam, >> >> Why don't you ad / include the Zend Framework 1.5 release to your >> webstack or to Open Solaris.org-- >> >> Regards, >> >> Chris >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: webstack-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org >> [mailto:webstack-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Sriram >> Natarajan >> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 5:09 PM >> To: Webstack Discuss >> Subject: [webstack-discuss] Moving forward with PHP >> >> 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 >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/attachments/20080325/84152f7a/attachment.html>
