Re: [RFC] Extension Prepend Files

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > There is currently no way to install an extension and a PHP library > > package at the same time. "pecl" can't install PHP libraries, and > > Why it needs to be "at the same time"? I don't see any use case where > it would matter if you run one command or two commands to install it. Well, I do. And it's not *just* installing two packages. It is also adding extra lines to every script to load code that your extension *depends* on. I would pick an "pecl install" over a "pecl install this", "composer install that", "add a few lines to a script" as an installation method anytime. > > "composer" can't install extensions. And even if it did, keeping the > > versions in sync is not easy at all. Only way to solve this properly > > is > > It seems to me you're reinventing packaging systems. I want to solve the issue where I have a PHP library that is tied to C code, without having to deal with random tools and depencies for no reason. PHP packaging systems don't do that. > I don't see why we should invent our own and why our own should take > form of putting PHP code into compiled binaries (yet less why suddenly > it is the "only way"). Many languages have extension systems and > packages that involve binaries - Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. AFAIK none > of them puts source code into binaries. Most of those languages don't depend as heavily on parts written in C though. They will only break out to C for specific reasons. PHP extensions are the other way around. It's almost always C, but some opt to also use some PHP to make developement faster. cheers, Derick