Re: Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4/ext/midgard config.m4)

> Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > At 02:04 20/3/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > >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. > > > > I completely agree with Andi about this. If it won't be simple, it will > > simply not be. We can start simple, and work our way up. > > For unixoids, this could probably be a glue script that uses CVS. > There'd > probably need to be checkin-time phpize setup or somesuch to make it > distribution-ready, or people would need autoconf et al on their systems > allways. > > I don't know how this would work for windows system, though. Well, just like the snapshots at snaps.php.net, any C extensions should be pre-autoconfed and should not require it on the user end. And no, we don't want to do software distribution via cvs. Straight HTTP should be fine. -Rasmus