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Post by stephenr » Fri, Feb 10, 2017, 12:43 PM UTC

shakna wrote: post #20

stephenr wrote: post #11

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> PHP isn't necessarily bad. But bad experiences mean I hate it. It sounds like those experiences were the fault of the developers not some intrinsic issue with the language itself. (i.e. its not like say "i hate flash because its a security shit-fueled nightmare"). Either way, the system currently has an "install script" and aims to develop deb/rpm/etc packages to achieve the same result, which seems like it's what…

Snaps would be more along the lines of what I'm suggesting. Using the system package manager still pulls down dependencies I don't want system-wide.

So, you want unpatched, unmaintained packages on your system?

The only dependencies this should have on eg Debian are PHP, SQLite and the Web Server virtual package.

Post by nsabine » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 3:25 AM UTC

shakna wrote: post #19

tcarey83 wrote: post #18

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OP here. Only the backend is written in PHP (it is very simple PHP) and that may change (probably Python, maybe Node.js). It's only a small part of the code, most of the code is javascript that runs in the browser. Initially, I am working on Apache and PHP because a lot of what I work on is Wordpress, but Nginx certainly supports PHP as well. Note that it doesn't require your code to be written in PHP, only that your…

I wasn't meaning to criticise the use of PHP at all. But creating some sort of bundle with a portable PHP and server, just a zipped folder or something, would hugely reduce the barrier to entry, and reassure people like me who shy away from part of the tech stack.

Use a container to package the dependencies and runtime, so you don't need to install them on your OS.

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