Re: cvs: php-src /ext/mcve mcve.c php_mcve.h
| From: | Brad House | Date: | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:39:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: php-src /ext/mcve mcve.c php_mcve.h | ||
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Andi,
Sorry about that, I haven't been paying much attention to the
internals@ list, I'll make sure I check the list before committing
next time. I have #if BRAD_0'd the code, and will remove those
#if's after 5.1.0 release.
-Brad
Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Brad,
>
> In any case, we are in a complete feature freeze right now. I sent an
> email about this to internals@. Only bug fixes allowed. Please #if
> BRAD_0 that code in HEAD. I don't see a problem allowing the addition
> of such simple wrapper functions after 5.1.0 goes out the door; but I
> don't want such code changes at this point.
>
> Andi
>
> At 12:54 AM 7/19/2005 +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:34:44 -0400
>> Brad House <bradmssw@php.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Perhaps. There was discussion once upon a time along those lines,
>> > but nothing else came of it. I'd have to know what it entails,
>> > and if it would prohibit the extension from being distributed
>> > with the main PHP codebase.
>>
>> AFAIK the general plan is to move almost all extensions to PECL
>> (and we're working on it, take a look on how many extensions were moved
>> there in 5.0 and 5.1), so users would be able to get & install only
>> extensions they really need.
>>
>> Personally I don't think that ext/mcve is used by large number of users
>> (I haven't ever heard of someone using it) and IMO that's a perfect
>> reason
>> to move it from the core to PECL.
>> I can be wrong, though.
>>
>> There are also several rather important reasons to do so:
>> 1) you wouldn't depend on PHP release cycles.
>> 2) you would be able to use PECL infrastructure to build Win32 *.dll's
>> 3) Others.
>>
>> All this doesn't mean that users will not be able to install/use the
>> extension
>> or even have some problems with it. Extensions from PECL can be
>> installed with this command:
>> # pear install extname
>> See details here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.php_Ñ?(Y¤
>> kÔ?¸dIÇ
>>
>> > Forgive my ignorance, but I have
>> > not even looked into what PECL really is.
>>
>> Well, I'd recommend to take a look on it, since you're the maintainer
>> of an extension..
>>
>> --
>> Wbr,
>> Antony Dovgal
>>
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