pickle (was: New branch: phpng <> pecl install)

On 18/11/14 16:09, Jan Ehrhardt wrote: > Maybe I have missed something, but I saw that Michael Wallner added new > branches phpng to the Propro and Raphf extensions. I can imagine this is > the easiest way for an extension maintainer, but how will users deal > with this? Unfortunately, not at all. > Will there be a way do do something like 'pecl install -b phpng propro'? > Or, better yet, will 'pecl install propro' automatically install a > 'phpng' branch (if it exists) and it is installing the extension for > phpng? IIRC, once there was functionality for windows snaps to build extensions based upon branches in PHP_<major>_<minor> form, that's all. My intention was just to grasp some bits about phpng and further release a new major version of the extensions once PHP7 was released. PECL development (the command) is practically non-existent, but I guess some useful features could be realised with pickle, the composer for PHP extensions. I actually had some ideas for pickle, too; one of them would be that pickle somehow manages to remember for which PHP version an extension was installed, so it would re-install it when it detects that the extension was previously built for another PHP version. -- Regards, Mike