Re: RFC: phpdbg

On 11/21/2013 02:43 PM, Michael Wallner wrote:

On 21 November 2013 15:38, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote:

On 11/21/2013 02:20 PM, Nikita Popov wrote:

I'm probably missing some context here, maybe you could explain how phpdbg differs from something like xdebug? I mean, xdebug seems to be the de-facto debugging extension for PHP and has been for a long time, but we're not bundling it. Why should we bundle phpdbg instead?

         This is not an extension, it is a SAPI module. The build system does

not support external SAPI modules, the implementation requires Zend API which is not exported (or wasn't, has since been patched).

That still does not answer the question, though?!

Yes, it does. xdebug has a reasonable route to deployment already, it, and none of it's users, benefit at all from xdebug being bundled. This is not the same, it can be deployed outside of the source tree but it's much harder, for most people, and for some impossible. I was happy writing code, getting a few functions exported and deploying to those people with the ability to build ... I don't much care for anything but writing the code, and will go back to that now ...