Re: RFC: phpdbg

On 21 November 2013 15:54, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote: > 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 ... Sorry, I actually only meant the first question: what's the difference to xdebug? I don't care yet about bundling, I don't event know what it is. -- Regards, Mike