[php-maint] Re: PHP4 troubles

[sean finney]

hi dirk,

for future reference please use the contact address supplied with the
package.  namely: pkg-php-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org .


On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 12:30 +0200, Dirk wrote:
> I run unstable with PHP4 and have serious troubles with phpmyadmin and
> arrays in general...
> 
> php.net tells me http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134 to update the Zend
> optimizer...
> 
> 
> 1) Is there a packages with the Zend optimizer and I haven't found it, yet?

the zend optimizer is a proprietary closed-source application, so no,
there are not packages.  even worse, we won't even promise that it will
work at all with the debian packages, since it requires a certain level
of binary-compatibility that we might change in order to make other
features available to our users.   if it works, great... but if it
doesn't... well let's just say it's not a high priority for us.

> 2) Should I rather downgrade to the PHP4 from stable?

php4 from stable won't work in unstable afaik, at least for apache2,
plus you have the whole tree of dependencies from stable which might not
be satisfiable in unstable.

so you should consider:

- using an alternative, open-source optimiser
- upgrading Zend engine as php.net recommends
- using php.net binaries (or home-rolled) for php.



	sean
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