PHP packages in RHEL / EPEL 6

[Remi Collet]

Hi,

I just have a look to RHEL 6 Beta

Some extensions available in Fedora are not in RHEL.

So the php-extras package could be adapted to provides them, taken from
5.3.1 sources (I could work on it, if you agree).

Here is the list :

imap
    interbase
    pdo_firebird
    mssql
    pdo_dblib
    sqlite3

I'm quite surprised for php-imap.
I don't see uw-imap nor libc-client in RHEL (uw-imap is in EPEL).

Joe can you give us more information about this ?

I think a lot of web applications (webmail, ticketing, and others) rely
on this extension.

Regards,
Remi.

[Joe Orton]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 07:04:54PM +0200, Remi Collet wrote:
> So the php-extras package could be adapted to provides them, taken from
> 5.3.1 sources (I could work on it, if you agree).
>
> Here is the list :
>
> imap
>    interbase
>    pdo_firebird
>    mssql
>    pdo_dblib
>    sqlite3
>
> I'm quite surprised for php-imap.
> I don't see uw-imap nor libc-client in RHEL (uw-imap is in EPEL).
>
> Joe can you give us more information about this ?

Hi Remi.  Yes, we're planning to add back imap by packaging libc-client 
from uw-imap as in RHEL5.  I'll try to make available for testing the 
set of 5.3.2 packages with -imap back in, once they are ready.

sqlite3 is in php-pdo as per Fedora.  We're not planning to ship 
mssql/dblib/firebird/interbase support.

Regards, Joe

[Remi Collet]

AS RHEL-6 will provide PHP 5.3, I have ask for a new EPEL-6 branch for
php-pecl-ncurses (php-curses no more provided by main php).

I also ask for some pear of my packages, not branched, because not
available in EL-5.
    php-pear-Cache
    php-pear-HTTP-OAuth
    php-pear-Mail-mimeDecode
    php-pear-Services-Twitter
    php-pear-Services-Weather
    php-phpunit-PHPUnit
    php-symfony-YAML  (waiting for php-channel-symfony)
    php-pecl-ncurses

And I will delete php-pear-PHPUnit (as in F-13)

There is probably a lot of other PHP packages which are not available in
EL-5 (because of php or pear version) and which can be imported in EL-6.

Remi.