On 28/08/2015 3:04 am, Jim Henderson wrote:
Thanks for the follow-up, Ben.
I'm a little puzzled by this suggestion, though - the PHP source code that I see on git is all C, not Perl.
Maybe they went for a full rewrite at some point, but it was definitely implemented in Perl in the beginning. Remember when PHP stood for Personal Home Page? Back then.
I don't know why anyone would build an interpreted language out of another interpreted language - that doesn't seem like a good idea. :)
It wasn't. ;)
More importantly, though, there's no dependency between php and perl - in fact, the php5 spec file doesn't list perl as a dependency at all.
Hopefully that means there was a full rewrite (and if so then it was probably when they changed from version 4 to version 5).
That said, both platforms (working and non-working) have the same versions of perl and php (perl is *slightly* newer on the broken system, but since there's no dependency between perl and php, that build version difference shouldn't be an issue - the version numbers still match).
It is somewhat more odd, though, if PHP dumped Perl for the thing to produce that very distinctive Perl type output. Of course I suppose it could be a PHP package that's not part of the main PHP code which was written by a Perl dev and utilises a similar naming scheme, but that's a bit of a reach.
Oxygen support is looking into the issue here - they've been able to reproduce the failure included in the e-mail message.
Excellent. I'll be curious to know what it was when it's solved.
FWIW, Novell doesn't "own" SUSE any more. They're a Micro Focus company (as is Novell). Novell hasn't "owned" them since 2011, when Attachmate acquired Novell. Attachmate has since been acquired by MF. :)
The history of Linux distro ownership ... it's like a game of cup and balls except with infinite cups and always a couple of outlier balls just to confuse everyone. I blame The SCO Group (because even if I'm wrong, no one will ever defend them). Regards, Ben