Re: cvs: php4 /ext/midgard config.m4

At 00:55 20/3/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

MySQL access functions were in PHP long before it went open source. I'm not saying that Midgard is on the same level of general usefullness but just that the fact that there's an organization behind it doesn't change it's licensing.

MySQL was always opensource. It was perhaps not opensource(tm), but

it was

opensource, before people came along and put rules on what opensource

means. OK, substitute OCI8, the argument stands.

I tend to agree to Colin's statement. I don't see the big added

value (to

everyone involved) in distributing midgard alongside PHP, and one of the reasons PEAR was born was for such extensions exactly.

Not a problem for me. But how is PEAR being made available, then? We still don't have a good framework for having PEAR extensions that contain PHP extensions written in C in them. That was always the goal, it just hasn't been done yet. And yes, I concur with most others here, when that gets finished, the midgard stuff belongs there.

It probably won't get finished until people start using it. The midgard people may be the right people for the job :) Zeev