Comment 20 for bug 191251

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Ondřej Surý (ondrej) wrote :

> In this case, I don't think we're considering the users' position,
> or how this negatively affects PHP by making it hard for users
> to utilize embedded PHP on our platform.

I think that's exactly what we do - we do consider the users' position.
phc is almost only user of this SAPI, which is still marked as experimental
(after almost 4 years and last commit from it's upstream author in 2007).

Also quoting Pierre Joye:
> About embed, I also think it is premature to bring it to a stable
> package. It needs some changes to be useful (for ex. split init
> functions so it can be used with embedded server more efficiently).
> Maybe a good start would be to contribute directly to PHP and add some
> tests for this SAPI. Once we reached a stable state, distros can then
> consider to bring it to their users.

So when considering the users' position to not exposing them to experimental
SAPI with almost zero user base and unstable API, the best consideration would
be to not package the embed SAPI.