Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>> 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 ...
>

How ugly.  [remaining comments unprintable]

cheers

andrew