| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement |
| Date: | 2005-05-03 18:49:42 |
| Message-ID: | 4277C7C6.6000609@dunslane.net |
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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.
>
>
> 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
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