Re: PECL and generated files

There is very little _requirements_ for this, as long as its a) possible to rebuild any of this data by downloading from somewhere.. b) possible to package and install it.. from a CVS checkout.. c) if anyone wants to help you out, the files are easily available.. there is some examples of this type of thing in php, the html trans_sid uses re2c to generate the C code, however, the source .re and the resulting .c file are in CVS. - so you dont need to have re2c to build PHP.. (however this is slightly different with the zend engine. - the lex/bison resulting files are not in CVS..) mainly as flex/bison can be configured at ./configure time and is pretty easy to get hold of, - where as the re2c is a little rarer.. I guess it's up to your judgement :) Regards Alan l0t3k wrote:

As some of you may know, im working on a Unicode based I18N extension for PHP based on ICU (http://www-124.ibm.com/icu/) the results thus far are at http://www.pearfr.org/~cshmoove . the extension itself is progressing fine, but i have some questions concerning external data and packaging. ICU provides tools which converts data from Unicode.org (and elsewhere) into a binary form which is usable by the library. this includes character properties and names, locale data and timezone information. i was a bit optimistic in my assessment of the time i had/needed to convert these tools to PHP. keep in mind that ICU is primarily written in C++, and although i have recoded the implemented segments in C, ICU is a HUGE package with quite a few internal dependencies. im afraid after more than a year, i dont have the additional energy to move the tools over. so the question is : is it OK to have generated files included in the extension tarball or is it always required to be able to generate the binary data from the original ? my though is to use the tools as is on my platform to generate the files, then convert them into C byte array source code to be included inline. thanks in advance.. l0t3k

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