Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>> Now it is true that you don't need this in for plphp. But if you want php 
>>> to have pg client support you need pg built first. And no sane packager is 
>>> going to build php twice.
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>> 
>> Actually, if you look through FreeBSD ports, this is exactly what happens 
>> ... when you build /usr/ports/devel/php4, it builds a "vanilla" php, no 
>> modules ... if you want pgsql support, you go into 
>> /usr/ports/databases/php4-pgsql, and build that (which has a dependency on 
>> lang/php4) ...
>> 
>> So, for plphp, a "port" would just have to install /usr/ports/lang/php4 to 
>> build, but would not necessarily build php4-pgsql ...
>> 
>> it is done this way to avoid packagers having to build a monolithich 
>> "contains everything" php4 ...
>> 
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> How ugly.  [remaining comments unprintable]

That's a matter of opinion ... in our environment, it means that clients 
can enable/disable PHP features on a per VM basis without having to build 
a new PHP binary for each ... *shrug*

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