Re: Binary pecl packages - general questions

On 9/12/05, Sascha Kettler <kettler@gmx.net> wrote: > What should the Windows binary package be called? Greg suggested crack_dll, > but I think crack_win32 would also be suitable. Is there any style fixed > yet? I think the name has meaning for the installer, so if Greg says crack_dll, it's probably for a good reason. > Next thing is whether it is ok to put the .dll files into CVS aswell There's no good reason to put those into CVS. > It would probably be really great for the PEAR installer to be able to > install binary extensions not using a PHP version but a ZEND_MODULE_API_NO. > Currently this constant is not available inside PHP, but it can be easily > extracted from the phpinfo() output. Also the DEBUG and ZTS flags would be > great for installconditions (maybe just use something like > 20020429-no-debug-zts as a match). Sounds useful to expose that information. > The reason for this proposal is that the ZEND_MODULE_API_NO is not that > consistent with the major PHP release number. The different versions I have > seen are: > > 4.1.0 to 4.2.0: 20010901 > 4.2.1 to 4.4.0: 20020429 > 5.0.0 to 5.0.2: 20040412 > 5.0.3 to 5.0.5: 20041030 > 5.1.0: 20050617 The numbers are actually the dates on which the API changed (or the dates when we released a version with a changed API) --Wez.