hoffies blog

For some months I have not started any new projects written in PHP. This is mostly because… once you know about some internals about how things are solved and how (security) problems are dealt with you no longer want to be involved with it. Another big argument is that there are other languages which look much better and are easier to work with in many ways. I for myself found Python to be pretty nice, and so all my new projects are written in Python.

Anyway, recently I have been involved with PHP a bit more again, not because I’m using it for my projects (there is still a big project (HesaSys) which is written in PHP and I will continue to work on it), rather because I am currently helping a bit with PHP related work at Gentoo. This “work” basically is providing a php-5.2.3 ebuild + patchset which sadly isn’t available in the main tree and probably won’t be for some time as CHTEKK, the person who usually does ALL the php work, is very busy with school atm. So, this is why php-5.2.3 is only in the php-experimental overlay and is provided by me (well, the ebuild itself is pretty much a copy of the previous version; the patchset is the part which usually requires a bit of work).

And of course I’m still (proxy-)maintaining xcache, where a new version (1.2.1) was released some days ago (ebuild already done, waiting for “my committer” to commit it to the tree),

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to switch to PHP again. ;)

Finally in the tree :)