[Savannah-cvs] [HomepageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql]

[clarkema]

<p>
Neither PHP nor MySQL are available. We could offer this facility if anyone is 
ready to volunteer to maintain this for Savannah and gnu.org in the long run. 
Installing it is not a big deal; however, making sure it actually works as 
expected day after day requires lot of attention.
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<p>
The same goes for perl CGI.
</p>

<p>
As of 19 Oct 2004, we still do not plan it for now. Here is an except from a 
mail exchange with James E. Blair:
</p>

<pre>
    I don't think we should support dynamic content right now.

    There is of course the security issue. Savannah and http://www.gnu.org are 
both very important servers and I'm not sure it's worth the risk.

    Probably more importantly, they are both pretty heavily loaded at the 
moment, and I'm not sure we should be adding any more work for them.
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