Re: PHP - A waste of time/resources?

Hi Scott, I seem to remember I was one of the people who helped you with the first few issues. I'm in a similar situation to yourself as I use SCO and Informix, both which are not supported very well(sorry folks but true). I have lost track of the number of hours I've put in for myself and helping many others usually off list because of this. There was a person on this list recently who was close to giving up but hopefully it was encouragement and help from myself and another SCO php'er that eventually made everything worth while. Unfortunately I cannot help you with the specific problem you now have but hopefully you too will not give up and then be able to pass on your knowledge to others. Just another PHP'er who understands your frustration ;-) Best regards, - Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott A Winkle" <swinkle@wittenberg.edu> To: <php-install@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 1:59 PM Subject: [PHP-INST] PHP - A waste of time/resources? > All, > > For those of you out there, trying your hardest to make PHP work with > anything other than Red Hat Linux and Apache, give up now. If you cant make > it work on your own, don't expect any help from this list or the > developers. They claim it to work great on other UNIX platforms and Web > Servers, but they fail to provide any straightforward information on all > the hackjobs and 3rd party tools you need, let alone the fact that chances > are, it wont work anyway. My department has spent months learning the ins > and outs of PHP, and when we got a nice new HP-UX box (September), we have > been working trying to make any version of PHP compile and run with > iPlanet. Sure, I hear you say, "use Apache". or "Use Solaris". No. I was > informed that PHP would work just fine with both. From the get go, I had > numerous problems. I will ignore those relating to 3rd party tools such as > gcc, since that is something our system needs anyway. I did ask for help > from the list, and for the first few issues, I received quite responsive > help, something I am greatly appreciative of. When It came to this last > problem, not one could/would help. So I turned to php's Bugs Tracker. What > a joke that is. I notice that linux or apache related "issues" get a quick > response, but forget seeing any response for something else. I once would > back open source software to management, always they tried to counter with > something of the sort "but we cannot get support for free software". I > always would try and convince them that there are plenty of message boards, > support lists, and bugtrackers to turn to, but I was proven wrong this > time, burnt bad, and I will probably have this whole mess thrown in my face > next time around. > > If anyone wants to prove me wrong, and thinks they can help, drop me a > line. I, personally, would like to see this work. After all, I think I > would rather move on than rewrite our many projects in Java or some equally > defective language. > > Else, I still wish the developers good luck, but try to provide (at least) > better documentation. > > > Thanks for letting me rant, > > > > > ---------- > Scott Winkle > Web Developer > Phone: (937) 327-7478 > swinkle@wittenberg.edu > Web Team / Wittenberg University Computing Center > > > -- > PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-install-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-install-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >