Re: Distribution of .dll files within PEAR (and announcement of php_imagick.dll)

Christian Stocker schrieb:

Hi had some quite minutes today and compiled imagick on windows. After some adjustment it runs now also on windows.. You can download it from http://php.chregu.tv/php_imagick.dll (you need also the imagemagick libraries available from http://imagemagick.org). Hope this helps the folks, which do use Windows :) Therefore I'm wondering how binary modules should be distributed within PEAR. IIRC, there's the role "ext" which installs it in the extension directory, but I would prefer a mechanism which allows to upload binary extensions seperated from the source. For example, I don't have a windows-compiler at hand all the time and could not upload a new source package then without having to compile it on windows (or having inconsistences in the uploaded packages) and it (approx.) doubles the download-size for people, who don't need the binary.

maybe its an idea to have a bin-directory in each PECL. In this dir can be a working version in binary form of the PECL (.so for uni*, .dll for win). Everytime a new version of php4 is released they can pick up the version within this dir without compiling each PECL. Maybe its better to have bin/php4.2.3/ or bin/php4.3/ and so on. If the dir is empty or doesen't exist, then this PECL will not distributed with the corresponding php-version. The responsibility for having working PECL's changes from the php-team to the PECL maintainers. bye, -- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Michael Bretterklieber - Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at JAWA Management Software GmbH - http://www.jawa.at Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 -------------- privat ------------ A-8041 GRAZ GSM: ++43-(0)676-93 96 698 Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 E-mail: mbretter@inode.at Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 http://www.inode.at/mbretter ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972