Bug #54250 [Com]: date_default_timezone_set stat()'s whole /usr/share/zoneinfo upon first call

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54250&edit=1 ID: 54250 Comment by: maciej at wiercinski dot net Reported by: maciej at wiercinski dot net Summary: date_default_timezone_set stat()'s whole /usr/share/zoneinfo upon first call Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Linux 2.6 PHP Version: 5.3.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I thought you've meant triggering "pecl upgrade" upon installing the new version of php-timezone package. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-17 00:10:44] rasmus@php.net No it won't. You can distribute a binary pecl extension without needing "PECL". I'm not even sure what you mean by "PECL" here. An individual pecl extension is just a simple shared library. Nothing more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-17 00:02:47] maciej at wiercinski dot net rasmus@php.net: It will still force them to distribute PECL (may be a concern for people building embedded/very small systems shipped with PHP). I don't really know PHP code, had just a very brief look at the patch itself and related functions, so what I'm saying may be completely invalid. What about compiling timezone data into dynamically loaded library, which they could ship separately of PECL/PHP itself / easily replace with calls to theirs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-16 22:56:15] rasmus@php.net Why not just make pecl/timezone dependent on the system timezone update. It seems easy enough to me. Your PHP package depends on pecl/timezone and pecl/timezone depends on the system timezone package. That should keep it all in synch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-16 22:52:34] maciej at wiercinski dot net johannes@php.net: I can see at least two problems Debian (and other distribution) maintainers will have with the solution you have proposed. They would have to make PHP dependent on PECL, which is currently not the case (at least not in Debian). On other hand it will eventually lead to a situation in which PHP's timezone update has been rolled out and system's not, or vice-versa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-16 18:56:32] johannes@php.net vJust a small comment on > The PHP tzdata changes are mixed in with the > mainline development, and sometimes depend on > other changes within the engine, so it's not > really feasible to cherry pick out the changes > into a stable release, even if we wanted to. This is not true. Distributions can distribute the timezone update using the pecl/timzeone package. No messing with engine stuff needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54250 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54250&edit=1