Re: [PATCH] Add php

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:22:53 +0100
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> wrote:

> Am 17.11.2016 um 01:01 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> > If there are no further comments, I will push this in the next few
> > days:  
> 
> Thanks for your work on this. It seems to be laborious.
> 
> I don't have time to inspect not to test the patch, so just some
> thought. I'm not a php-user, but wanted to install a php-driven
> website on Guix some weeks ago and had a look on what else would be
> required.
> 
>   * Does this php package include what other distributions call
>     "php-cli", "php-fpm" and "php-cgi"? Maybe you want to mention it
> in the synopsis. (Addendum: I just found in
>     <https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/php5> that it looks
> like these are part of the package.)
>   * As far as I understood, "pear" and "pecl" are important for
>     installing php packages. Are these part of your package, too?

The package contains the following executables in sbin and bin:
php-fpm  pear  peardev  pecl  phar  phar.phar  php  php-cgi  php-config
phpdbg  phpize

> 
> 
>   * What do you think about adding "Packaging guideline" for "PHP
>     Modules" section to the manual?
>   * Do yo think we need some php build system?
I have no idea how system-wide php packages could be installed, so I
can't answer that (yet?). Sorry.

> 
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