Four reasons why Drupal should fork PHP

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Post by mikey_p » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 5:23 AM UTC

Four reasons why Drupal should fork PHP
blog.calevans.com

Re: Four reasons why Drupal should fork PHP

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Post by tintin » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 8:01 AM UTC

One reason why they shouldn't: When they fork PHP, they need another team to maintain there PHP fork. A team like.. the team maintaining PHP already.

Re: Four reasons why Drupal should fork PHP

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Post by thefreshteapot » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 8:47 AM UTC

Interesting to read and to ponder. Personally (myself included) more php developers need to make a little effort to give back to the core, it doesnt need to be in bug fixes or new features. The excellent documentation is downloadable, from which you can add your "examples" and start giving back.

Drupal shouldnt fork php, extensions were mentioned, rightfully. The author didnt go into explaining the "whys" for Drupal. As a non Drupal developer im curious to know some of the pain points.

Re: Four reasons why Drupal should fork PHP

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Post by kylewpppd » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 12:28 PM UTC

This article was ok, but the title is pure sensationalism. The author even concedes that he doesn't want Drupal to fork PHP. Maybe I missed the point of the article then. Seems to me the point was another article that talks about how bad PHP is.

Re: Four reasons why Drupal should fork PHP

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Post by calevans » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 3:24 PM UTC

kylewpppd wrote: post #4

This article was ok, but the title is pure sensationalism. The author even concedes that he doesn't want Drupal to fork PHP. Maybe I missed the point of the article then. Seems to me the point was another article that talks about how bad PHP is.

Hi!

The point of the post was to start a discussion, which it did. It was aimed at PHP developers, not Drupal developers and my goal was to present a scenario that they could ponder. What IF one of the major projects got to the point where they felt it was in their best interest to fork PHP.

I don't think PHP is bad. As a member of the PHP community, I do everything I can to promote PHP and it's usage, best practices, etc. There are however, lessons we as a community can learn from the projects that have been built on PHP.

I agree with the previous commenter that more PHP developers should give back. Since I'm not a C programmer, I give back through writing, pointing people to tutorials and blog posts around the web, and speaking at user groups around my region. I encourage every PHP developer to get involved in their local PUG and be an active member.

Thank you for taking the time to read the post and comment on it. :)

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