Thanks Sriram. If you (or anyone else at 'webstack-discuss'!) needs download numbers, corporate partners, open-source press, or any other supporting material to make this case, feel free to contact me. Regards, Brad
-- Bradford Cottel Director of Marketing & Chief Evangelist Zend Technologies +1 408 253-8812 voice +1 408 253-8801 fax http://framework.zend.com http://www.zend.com ________________________________ From: Sriram.Natarajan at Sun.COM [mailto:Sriram.Natarajan at Sun.COM] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:57 PM To: Chris Lash Cc: Brad Cottel; Webstack Discuss Subject: Re: PHP/ Zend Framework---Press Release for you.-- 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
