Hi (CC-ing to Debian-Med), I'm a member of the Debian-Med team, and I've ultimately been working on our homepage at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org . We'd like to have some "stats" about our packages (i.e. bugs, versions in distributions, ...). As concerns the bugs, I thought we could use (from PHP): 1) ldap component to query bts2ldap.debian.net; but the ldap component is not installed; 2) soap component to query the Debbugs SOAP interface; but Alioth has php4, which doesn't carry soap with it. I've already talked long to Raphael Hertzog about this: he suggested me that having a dynamic page always generate the results might carry some latency to the end-user. So he suggested to make a cronjob with a tool that generated a static page. So I thought at this tool: python (import SOAPpy failed), perl (use SOAP::Lite failed), someone on the debian-med list suggested Ruby, but I didn't want to try just to fail again. So, the question is: is there any chance of an upgrade to PHP5 (that has soap integrated, plus many other features over PHP4) for Alioth? Or is it better that I create my own tool (Python, Perl, Ruby, $whatever), and then ask you to install the required components / dependencies? Kind Regards, David Paleino Debian-Med Team P.S.: sorry if I've been a bit long, but I wanted to clearly explain what we (Debian-Med) need :) -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://snipurl.com/qa_page/ : :' : Linuxer #334216 | http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://www.debianizzati.org/ `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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