PHP4 in extras?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:52 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > I'll try hacking the configure script not to complain about PHP != 4.3.x
> > and see how much further it gets.
> 
> My personal feeling is that long term you will want to avoid having to
> maintain php in extras.. just for your own sanity.  At some point you
> have to ask the hard question about whether trying to keep up with
> things like php4 security issues over the long haul is less of a
> resource burn than working with php-gtk developers to support php5. 
> Unfortunately, confidently knowing that answer invovles seeing the
> future.  You could however gain insight by finding a php-gtk developer
> and asking them about the state of php5 support.  It might be a better
> use of your time to help them getting php-gtk working with php5,
> depending on the specific issues invovled.

or better yet convincing the person who wrote the php-gtk program that
it is just crack and port it to something more sustainable on this
distro.
-sv