Re: filesystem notification extension

On 12 June 2024 16:46:31 BST, Frederik Bosch <f.bosch@genkgo.nl> wrote: >Dear PECL Mailing List, > >Conforming to the policies mentioned on the PECL Publishing page, I am sending this message to >request access to publish a filesystem notification extension on PECL. First a little introduction. >I have been a PHP-dev for more than 20 years and a few years ago I have contributed to PHP with the >SameSite RFC. I am also maintaining the MoneyPHP package. > >Regarding the extension I would like to publish on PECL, I have been searching for a >cross-platform filesystem notification library but I could not find any. The inotify extension has >not been updated since 2020. Only after I decided to create this package, the first userland package >(azjezz/assess <https://packagist.org/packages/azjezz/assess>) >arrived on Packagist. I think an extension with filesystem notifications would be really helpful. >Therefore I created the php-ext-fs-notify package ><https://github.com/genkgo/php-ext-fs-notify>. The extension >name is fs-notify. > >To develop the extension I decided to use the PHPER (PHP Enjoy Rust) framework ><https://github.com/phper-framework/phper>. I basically used >it to create a PHP interface around notify-rs ><https://github.com/notify-rs/notify>. This week the package >got to a first version that is ready to use for the public. At the moment it supports Linux and >macOS filesystem notifications for PHP 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3. > >I would love to have access to PECL to publish this extension. > >Regards, >Frederik Hi Frederik, The idea for an extension for this sounds reasonable. I've just had a look, but I can't get this to compile with the standard phpize && ./configure && make sequence, which is going to be required if this is going to be installed through the PECL installer. cheers Derick