Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Fri, 04 May 2007 18:00:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3 | ||
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On 05/04/2007 09:49 PM, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
Antony Dovgal wrote:autoconf-2.13 is not required, it's only recommended. Also the same build system is required to build PHP, so this argument looks bogus to me.What's the problem with having it in PECL? I'm sure everybody interested in it can get it working in no more than 10 seconds usingPECL is great, but it does require a build system with increasingly obsolete set of tools (autoconf-2.13, etc.).pecl install phar.
Having Phar in the main distro will open up a whole new way to distribute PHP applications which would be a great advantage. The current system of distributing a bunch of PHP files has some shortcomings.-- Wbr, Antony Dovgal