Re: [RFC] Extension Prepend Files

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > 2) Embedded text sections. It's possible to place the raw PHP code > > > into the compiled .so/.dylib/.dll file and fetch it out for > > > compilation at runtime. This enables easy bundling of the loaded > > > > I guess it is possible, but why - what's wrong with plain old files and > > phars? > > Deployment and installation. Right now, "pecl install extension" doesn't > really allow you to also install **and** load a PHP script on every > request. Such a PHP script could define extra classes, that are written > in PHP - because maintainting them as a C implementation would be way > more work. Having users install another set of PHP files for every > project is error prone, and frankly, bad for user experience. I can > definitely see the use case here, and it's probably something we'd want > to use for the new MongoDB driver. > Yes the deployment aspect isn't discussed in my RFC and that is an important part. Frankly most of the ideas presented here are way better than the hack I have come up with, the question is how to proceed to refine this idea? The general plan seems to be to have a way to embed PHP code into the shared object, for example using Autoconf Macros (like the embed extension mentioned above does) > > cheers, > Derick >