Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released
| From: | Rubem Pechansky | Date: | Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:04:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released | ||
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Hi Wez,
> In essence "You can do what you like with the components of PHP,
> provided you don't call the end result PHP", so yes, that is not a
> problem.
OK, great!
> You
No, no me -- I'd rather ask somebody who knows better ;)
> can certainly go through and strip-down ext/standard, but it is a
> big task deciding what to keep and what to toss
Yes, quite a lot of trial and error
> and it's *very*
> unlikely that it will be supported in the main distro
No, it won't be :)
> making it much more painful for you to maintain.
Maybe someone is brave enough to do it... The goal here is to find out which
components are discardable (I bet many of them are) so the size of
php*ts.dll is smaller, specially with PHP 5.
Thanks!
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Rubem Pechansky
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> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:53:18 -0300, Rubem Pechansky
> <pechansky@hypervisual.com> wrote:
> > 1) Is it possible to include just two or three files from the PHP
> > distribution (php*.exe, php?ts.dll) along with their license in the
> > WinBinder package? This would allow the extension to be totally
> > self-contained to both developers and end users.
>
> http://www.php.net/license/
>
> In essence "You can do what you like with the components of PHP,
> provided you don't call the end result PHP", so yes, that is not a
> problem.
>
> > 2) Is it possible to recompile PHP without the web components and
release it
> > as a smaller DLL (with its license, of course)?
>
> Depends on what you mean by web components; the glue for each web
> server lives in a separate SAPI DLL (or the php-cgi.exe) in the
> windows build anyway.
> You can certainly go through and strip-down ext/standard, but it is a
> big task deciding what to keep and what to toss and it's *very*
> unlikely that it will be supported in the main distro, making it much
> more painful for you to maintain.
>
> --Wez.