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

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:21:32AM +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote: > 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. Seems that you're forgetting main point of PEAR: you don't need to recompile PHP itself when adding some module via PEAR because more suitable method exists -- self contained extensions -- which works via PEAR right now. Of course, there is small number of extensions from /ext which could be compiled in this mode out-of-the-box right now (mostly because building environment in PEAR still unreliable), but it exists. -- Sincerely yours, Alexander Bokovoy The Midgard Project | ALT Linux Team | Minsk Linux Users Group www.midgard-project.org | www.altlinux.ru | www.minsk-lug.net -- You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard