Re: Request to link PuPHPet from php.net's download page sidebar

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > > > On 14 July 2014 10:46, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 14 July 2014 18:12, Juan Treminio <jtreminio@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I am the owner/maintainer of the FOSS project PuPHPet, which > > > > allows developers to quickly (and hopefully, easily) create > > > > highly-customized virtual machines using Vagrant and Puppet. > > > > Right now the project leans heavily in favor of PHP-specific > > > > builds, but in the near future I wish to add other languages as > > > > well, while keeping PHP as the main focus. > > > > > > > > The URL is https://puphpet.com Github is > > > > https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet > > > > > > +1 on adding PuPHPet to the sidebar on > > > http://php.net/downloads.php While we’re there, > > > let’s add > > > dotdeb.org and Ondřej’s repos to the list. > > > Objections? > > > > http://deanhunt.com/wp-content/uploads/do-it.png > > I've already mentioned this on irc (I wasn't aware that there is a thread > about it), but I don't think that it is a good idea to add this to the list. > Adding this would be a precedence for adding > http://phansible.com/ and > every other project which has anything to do with virtualization and php. > That block was originally added to link to MacOSX binaries where it wasn't > available by default nor common for the users to build php for themself: > > http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=commit;h=e2c704cf3885819fb8f06fc5c8814c2e52c4c234 > Little by little, we ended up in a situation, where we even list > alternative repos for linux distros where php is already available from the > distributor, and multiple amp stack for the same platform. > Given how much do we suck keeping that list up-to-date, and people are > willing to fight tooth and nail to get listed there, if anything I would > like to see that block to be removed. > What do you think? +1 for getting it removed. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine