Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
>>Of course not, but I still don't see your point. plPHP doesn't need
>>PHP+PostgreSQL support. Nor does PHP+PostgreSQL conflict with using
>>plPHP...
>>
>>PHP doesn't even need to be installed for plPHP to work... You just
>>need the source tree for building.
> 

O.k. now I get it.. Basically you are saying that in order to build 
plPHP you need PHP and PostgreSQL (regardless if they know about each 
other). So in order to build plPHP you need to build PostgreSQL, then 
PHP, then plPHP... versus just Postgresql+plPHP...

However plPHP is a configure option (when patched)... Thus if they
choose with-php then they would (presumably) know what they were getting 
into.

That makes sense.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



> 
> I don't talk about manual build processes, I talk about (semi-)automatic 
> package builds.  The PHP package has a build dependency on PostgreSQL, 
> because it needs libpq.  So PostgreSQL needs to be built and installed 
> before PHP can be built.  But then, if PL/PHP were to be integrated 
> into PostgreSQL, PHP needs to be installed first, so the 
> PostgreSQL+PL/PHP build can get at the PHP headers files and whatever 
> else it needs.  So you can neither build PHP first nor build PostgreSQL 
> first.
> 
> So building PL/PHP doesn't need a PHP with PostgreSQL support.  But no 
> one is going to build two versions of PHP packages just so PostgreSQL 
> can build.  That is a mess we can happily avoid.
> 
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