php view issue / freebsd port issue

[trac@…]

I'm filing this with the trac wiki, and also with the freebsd port maintainer, as a fix could come from either.

i noticed an issue today when trying to look at a php file for the first time in trac - it wouldn't read at all. some googling and looking on the trac site made me realize that it was an issue with trac.ini , and the mimeviewer setting

the fix is easy: "php_path = php" → "php_path= /usr/local/bin/php"

however this made me question 3 things:

1) why is php even involved in this at all? there is a ton of other syntax support in trac.

2) my old trac.ini install picked up the bin 'php', i tried a fresh install on a new machine, as well as speaking with friends who have run various versions on freebsd , centos , & ubuntu. all had a similar problem. is there a way that the system can better detect the php binary during ini writing? or maybe even try a few fallback locations if it just reads 'php' — this seems to be a common issue.

3) i've been using trac since ~ the .7 branch and updating regularly. when i did a fresh install on a new box today , i realized much the ini files have been changing — everything is still compatibile, but there are a ton of new settings. would it be possible to build into the trac distribution a sample trac.ini file per version from now on — so people can diff the settings on any two trac versions ? i know that the ini is dynamically generated and not templated — but if there were a way to just make a sample that comes with source, so when people update via ports/pkgs in various distros or from source, the info is all right there.

[sid]

Regarding (3), Trac upgrade does produce a 'trac.ini.sample' file with all the default values, so you may want to compare your settings with the new default settings after an upgrade.

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Just as a note, in 0.11 we now use Pygments in order to do highlighting. Pygments uses native highlighting and does not use the php CLI at all.

[Piotr Kuczynski <piotr.kuczynski@…>]

Use pygments with latest version of TRAC