Re: New PECL Extension, mysqlnd based

Hi Filip, On 22.04.2021 at 10:23, Filip Janiszewski wrote: > I would like to publish a new extension on PECL, the proposed name is mysqlnd_ngen (where ngen > stands for next gen) and it would contain mysqlnd, mysqli and pdo (forked from php and bundled in > one extension with building scripts that will prepare the 3 extension builds which the user can load > into php instead of the original version in the repo) with a bunch of modifications that Oracle > (Where I work and on behalf of which I'm submitting the request) is providing and that are > expected to be used from hopefully community and certainly corporate users. (Like, support for > specific auth mechanism like kerberos, or support for high availability, topology discover etc). > > I can login to PECL (fjanisze) and I saw that before submitting a new package request I should > inquiry this list for comments, so here I'm, please comment for further details or suggestions > on different names - The maintainer of the repo would be me and the extension will be up to date > with php-8.0. Wouldn't it be possible to add these modifications to the bundled extensions? It seems to me that would generally preferable over new forks.. Also, is there already some public repo available for mysqlnd_ngen? Thanks, Christoph