Subject: Re: lang/php, www/php4 question
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/09/2006 00:11:47
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:36:27PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> Is this considered to be correct, a subdir under a pkgsrc category without
> a Makefile?
Yes. See lang/python for another example.
> Also, I noticed PHP 4 actually resides under www/php4. Why is it there,
> while php5 is under the lang category?
php4 is under www/ mostly for historical reasons. There is one important
difference though -- php5 is much more likely to be used stand-alone.
I'm not sure how general the purpose of php4 is.
Joerg