php5-5.2.11_1 Vulnerabilities

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On 12/26/09 3:38 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
>> I say this as both someone who does web hosting and codes in PHP.  I
>> often wonder what the point of PHP is given Markup::Perl[3]'s existence.
> 
> Ooooh... another way of embedding perl into HTML.  That makes <... counts
> on fingers ...> loads.
> 
> Not to mention all those solutions employing Ruby or Java/jsp or
> Python.  And
> the Google web tools stuff, where you write pure Java and it compiles
> into the
> appropriate mix of server side Java objects and Ajax enabled web pages.
> 
> Or the distressingly under-appreciated WebObjects stuff from Apple,
> which may
> have been around a few years but is still pretty revolutionary (although
> not
> free).
> 
> No -- there are many, many alternatives to PHP.  Trouble is, there are
> many,
> many web-monkeys out there that cannot conceive of using anything else. 
> And
> if you propose to a client writing a web app in any other language they
> get all
> bothered because it's "non standard" and because "we can find PHP coders
> easily". That's a self fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one.  A lot
> like proposing any
> other OS than Windows...  Now who would do a thing like that?
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew (who thinks HTML::Mason is where it's at...)
> 

suhosin-patch-5.2.11-0.9.7.patch.gz is now in ports so this issue is closed.