Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Fri, 04 May 2007 18:06:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3 | ||
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Antony Dovgal wrote:
> On 05/04/2007 09:49 PM, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
>> Antony Dovgal wrote:
>>> 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 using
pecl install phar.
>>
>> PECL is great, but it does require a build system with increasingly
>> obsolete set of tools (autoconf-2.13, etc.).
>
> 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.
PHP source tarballs come with configure scripts pre-built so auto tools
(and very old one at that) are not needed. They are for the pecl installs.
I really don't understand the objection. We have added the extensions to
the core before when we want to promote a certain technology.
Edin