RE: [PHP-DEV] Midgard (Was: cvs: php4 /ext/midgard .cvsignore...)

> > At 22:11 12/2/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > >The idea here is that Midgard has a large installed base of > users, all of > > >whom have to run a modified version of PHP. The extension, > albeit rather > > >large at this point, is supposed to provide the basic > functionality in the > > >standard PHP distribution so people will not have to run a > modified PHP to > > >use midgard. The intent here is not to have all of Midgard in PHP. > > >Hopefully the Midgard folks will work towards making the extension as > > >small as possible. > > With the PHP4 version of Midgard, patching is no longer a necessity. > It's > an ordinary extension like the others. Perhaps it would be an idea to move it out of the main PHP CVS (into another cvs module) for now and put links on php.net, personally I would really like to see things like this in PEAR which is where I feel they should be. Is there any work being done on some sort of deamon/server for PEAR so people get a client build when PHP builds and then they can just tell it to fetch various modules for PHP from php.net and any mirrors etc. In the end somthing like $>pearclient get midgard which would do everything needed (IE fetch midgard from PHP.net place in it right place etc) would be cool then all the client would have to do is either build it as .so or rebuild php with --enable-midgard for example. Just my ?0.02 James