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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Lex Ein" <lex_ein AT f-m DOT fm>, "Cygwin List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mod-php4 missing from cygwin distro
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 00:06:32 +0100
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Lex Ein wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
> ...
>>> 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?

The Cygwin Apache maintainer repeatedly failed to respond to bugs in his packages, resulting in them being pulled from the
distribution.

A new mantainer volunteered, and restored apache to the distribution, but has not yet done the same with all the extra apache
modules.

Max.


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