Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow loading extensions by name
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Wed, 11 May 2016 11:55:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow loading extensions by name | ||
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On 11/05/2016 07:20, Christian Stoller wrote:
Why not just naming them *.so on all platformsWhile it can't be relied on, a file suffix does communicate something about the type of the file. Someone might list the downloads for an extension as "foo.so (for Linux/Unix); foo.dll (for Windows)" and it would be obvious what format the files were in.