[Bug 191251] Re: [needs-packaging] php5-embed

[Ondřej Surý]

Speaking here as a member of Debian php maintainers.

I have read mentioned web pages and nothing has convinced me, that this
is more then just proof of concept with no real application in the
sensible world.

php5 is a language for creating web pages. Embedding language which a
horrible design, constantly changes the API, with no common concept, is
just a very bad idea. And I hope Ubuntu will never stray and package
php5-embed on it's own, since it's not going to happen in Debian(*).

There is a bunch of other programming languages suited for embedding -
lua, python, ruby, even perl. Embedding php5 is just wrong. Don't do it.

Ondrej

* - unless current php maintainers all retire and new maintainers will
lost their minds, or we are overruled by technical committee in which
case I would probably retire as php maintainer

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[needs-packaging] php5-embed
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