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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:51:51 -0700
From: Lex Ein <lex_ein AT f-m DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: mod-php4 missing from cygwin distro
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Larry Hall wrote:
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>>I would be very grateful to anyone who could give me leads on what happened to the php libs.
...
> mod-php4 is not part of the distribution at this time.  There are plans to 
> re-add it in the future.  No, I don't know when that will be. ;-)

What were the reasons for removal?
1. WJM.
2. redundancy? (easy to grab&compile or grab&run if needed)
3. technical? (difficulty integrating into cygwin release pipeline, 
cross-compilation probs, slow bug fixes)
4. political/personal?
5. other?  (URL or concise, relevant reason here)


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