[Info-vax] PHP

[Arne Vajhøj]

Rich Jordan wrote:
> I was very disappointed to see no mention of an upgrade to PHP for SWS
> in the roadmap, especially after hearing last year that one was due
> out "soon".  All they list is the 'current' version, no mention of any
> updates.
> 
> PHP (and to be fair Perl), even the ancient version now available has
> been instrumental in our being able to keep several VMS systems in a
> 'primary' usage situation... without it more than one site would have
> ended up buying a wintel server to host their wiki/cms/etc internal
> websites on, further relegating their VMS boxes to a legacy, get off
> it as soon as possible mode.  With PHP we were able to provide the
> newer functionality they wanted using various open source packages, at
> little cost, and place emphasis on how versatile (and important) that
> nice multitasking reliable secure Alphaserver really is.
> 
> We're running into a wall with one site now due to the decrepitude of
> the available PHP version.  The newer releases of their chosen package
> are dropping support (and operability) with PHP V4.anything.  This is
> going to be impacting at least some of the others soon, and we're
> going to have 'legacy, unsupported' rubbed in our faces again as we're
> forced to get them some wintel box to provide basic functionality.

What can we say?

HP is no prioritizing such things.

So if PHP 5 (or 6 in the future) is a requirement, then
Linux/x86-64 looks as the way to go for web.

Would they be interested in Python?

Python for VMS seems to be less behind than PHP on VMS (even
though I do not see 2.6 and 3.0 on the web site).

But then they are not being maintained by HP.

:-)

Arne