Re: [RFC] Binary pecl packages

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:19:36AM +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: > package creation > ---------------- > > pear build -b peclfoo-3.1.2.tgz > > The -b (or --bin) option generates the package containing only the > compiled extension and the files marked with role "php", "doc", > "test", > "data" or "script" with the original package.xml modified > automagically (explained in the next point). I think 'pear dist' would be a more appropriate name for this operation (or maybe just an extension of 'pear package'). > An idea would be to create a COMPILED_AT.txt file with some data about > the env where the extension was compiled at, like the > php version, the php_uname(), the extra libs versions, os vendor > version, /etc/shadow file, etc. I'd suggest BUILDINFO.txt. I'm not sure if this is entirely necessary, but I can see where it would be useful. I'll also point you to distutils[1]. The Python folks spent a lot of time thinking about these kinds of problems, and the result is a quite good system. [1] http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-distutils.html -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)