Re: Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/midgard config.m4)
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:04:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/midgard config.m4) | ||
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> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>
> >Because the whole point of this was to make life easier on midgard users.
>
> So you're saying that every widely used external (at the moment)
> php-extension should be put into PHP CVS? :)
If it will help users and there is demand for it, sure. Like the imlib2
extension for example. That probably should be in PHP CVS.
> Isn't php-gtk done like the way the PEAR (C) components should be done?
> At least that's how I compiled that extension. Separately from PHP.
> Using phpize. So I would guess having e.g. midgard outside PHP shouldn't
> matter at all?
No, we need tighter integration. We want to be able to do something along
the lines of "pear pear.php.net/midgard" and it would go and fetch
the the component, build it and install it.
-Rasmus