Bug#211118: ITP: php-gtk -- PHP extension for GTK+ client-side cross-platform GUI apps.

[Arnaud Patard <rtp@rtp-net.org>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:54:17AM +0200, Patard Arnaud wrote:
>
> > * Package name    : php-gtk -- PHP extension for GTK+ client-side cross-platform GUI apps.
> >   Version         : 0.5.2
> >   Upstream Author : Andrei Zmievski <andrei@php.net>
> > * URL             : http://gtk.php.net/
> > * License         : LGPL
> >   Description     : PHP-GTK: PHP language bindings for GTK+ toolkit.
> > PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that enables you to write client-side
> > cross-platform GUI applications. This is the first such extension of
> > this kind and one of the goals behind it was to prove that PHP is a
> > capable general-purpose scripting language that is suited for more
> > than just Web applications. This extension will _not_ allow you to
> > display GTK+ programs in a Web browser, and can be used in the Web
> > environment only if you are running the webserver locally. It is
> > intended for creating standalone GUI applications.
>
> I object to this ITP on the grounds that PHP is NOT a capable,
> general-purpose scripting language that is suited for more than just web
> applications.
I disagree with you. The first thing I must say is that php is describe as
a scripting language in its documentation
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php).
Secondly I use php for making many scripts that do NOT deal with web
applications and it seems that I'm not the only one if you look at this
url http://gtk.php.net/apps/.
I know that many people can't imagine that php may do other things that
just web pages but, imho, it's wrong. For instance, making a script that
use OpenLdap is not easy but that's wrong if you write it in php.


>
> > (Include the long description here.)
>
> Indeed.
>
> --
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>