Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt

At 09:16 PM 4/18/2001 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

When we're past the prototyping phase and stuff stabilizes, a C rewrite may be a good idea, but I don't think it is now.

Well you know the most permanent things are temporary things such as prototypes. I also thought it would make much more sense to create something very small in C (maybe even Perl as it's installed on all systems) and use that. I'm not really sure anymore what this installer you are talking about looks like. So I think it would be good to get a small update and have a discussion of what we need on php-dev@. I see no issue with writing a prototype in PHP. The start of such a prototype is in cvs (pear/script/pear) And yes, using XML is pretty much a no-brainer here. That will allow a lot of different nifty tools to access the package information.

For a start you don't have PHP installed on most systems. So PHP would need to compile itself and then fetch packages and recompile itself. Seems to me like the no-brainer isn't such a no-brainer. Andi