ports/50781: devel/php4 is missing

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Alex Kiesel wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:58, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
>
> > > The lang/php4-Port has been merged into www/mod_php4. You must upgrade
> > > that port.
> > >
> > > There have been discussions about this merge which showed some
> > > backdraws: to have command-line php installed, it is neccessary to
> > > install the Apache webserver (and all of its dependencies); so it seems
> > > possible that lang/php4 returns.
> >
> > And if I don't want this bloody apache ? (Since I don't use it since I
> > use Caudium)...
>
> Hm, I guess at the moment the choices are a) installing mod_php4 to get
> command-line php or b) not upgrading.
>
> I am not the port maintainer, so I cannot change this fact. Yet, Dirk
> did not express his opinion about this.

I really thought this was resolved already, but it's obvious at this point
that people want the command line version of the port restored, so I'm
willing to sponsor that if no one else more qualified steps up.

Dirk, please state your intentions before Saturday morning California
time if you have any opinions/concerns on the shape of the CLI version of
the port. Thanks.

Doug

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