New extension update
| From: | Andrew Teixeira | Date: | Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:21:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | New extension update | ||
| Groups: | php.pecl.dev | ||
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Hello,
I have done a good deal of work on the extension I proposed a week
or so back. This was the extension that would read RPM files' headers
and provide PHP functions to access the tags therein. I have since
done away with the librpm (RPM's API) libraries and headers and have
instead done it the "long way" by actually reading the bytes from the
file to access the headers. This was all due to GPL licensing on the
header files and libraries. I have not created the module yet, but
have written the same functionality in a C program which should
translate easily to a PECL module. Should I apply online for a PECL
account at this point?
I will hopefully have a working PECL module for this in another
week or so that (I hope) will be free from licensing restrictions that
have caused problems when I first suggested it. Please let me know
your comments. Thanks.