This one time, at band camp, sean finney said: Disclaimer: I'm not now sponsoring or maintaining any apps that really are affected by this policy discussion, but count me as an interested consumer. > -- php4 -- > > first things first, i want to bring up the topic of dropping php4. Fully agreed. I just finished a migration of several hundred customer websites to new hardware, and in the process, we made the decision to leave php4 behind. One website broke (trivial forward port - about a 10 line patch) and one cronjob broke because it called php4 directly. I understand other people's experience may be different, but mine so far is that the vast majority of code out there will run on php5 with little or no changes. > -- pear, pecl, and php policy -- > > afaik the pear/pecl situation is still really messy wrt debian php > library/extension packages vs locally installed extensions. Yes, I ran into this one time, and although I would have to look at my notes to remember all the details, it looked like the search path for extensions was almost an either/or. Painful. > -- misc packaging details -- > > does anyone mind if i drop the home-rolled patch system in favor of > something a little more useful? Quilt and dpatch are both great. quilt is a little cleverer than dpatch (allows for arbitrary comment styles at the tops of patches, can do -p0 or -p1 without issue), but both are fine tools. I'd also love to see another webapps meetup at Debconf, if people think they're interested. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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