Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] manpage for lcd4linux

[Jerry S. <ye...@th...>]

Hello all,

Thanks Xavier and Martin for your input.

I do have a few concerns about using PHP.  It almost seems like PHP
is a solution in search of a problem.

1. Exactly what on the lcd4linux website needs PHP?  We have a bunch
of mostly static files up and it doesn't seem like we have many plans
for dynamic content.  HTML and CSS are tailored to static content. 
Why use PHP?  Xavier, you mentioned before that the News and Changelog
sections could be automatically handled by PHP, but in reality, how
often do these change?  Once a month?  When they are changed, how long
does it take, maybe 30 minutes?  With PHP and your solution, how long
will it take?  20 minutes?  Is the time-saving worth the extra time
spent writing and maintaining the PHP pages?

2. What happens when the PHP breaks and you aren't around to maintain
it?  Michael then gets stuck with it because he wants to release the
next version of lcd4linux and he has to update the webpage.  Myself,
I would rather have Michael working on adding new features to lcd4linux
than maintaining PHP code he knows nothing about. (I don't mean to 
say that you aren't reliable or anything like that, just that we can't
be around all the time.)

3. Integration with autogenerated HTML, such as DocBook files that 
are rendered in HTML.  Can we still throw the DocBook output up on
the website?

How is writing the webpages in PHP different from writing lcd4linux
in Java?  PHP has a lot of really cool features that I don't see a 
need for here.


Jerry