Re: Re: libzip?

Hello Pierre, how does moving the library in another place make the extension less popular? The thing here is that two extensions cannot share the same library. So I see the following ways to proceed: 1) Keep zip out of pecl, given its age and locatipon in core i would expect it to be stable by now and there shouldn't be a reason for a new release every other day. Then export all symbols and be done with that. 2) Make zip and phar mutual exclusive 3) Obsolete zip with phar (phar could do more than zip does easily) My preference is of course 1 marcus Friday, January 11, 2008, 7:21:29 PM, you wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 5:21 PM, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote: >> Hi Pierre and folks, >> >> I wondered if you and the others would be amenable to moving libzip into >> its own extension just like libxml is? This way, both ext/zip and >> ext/phar could link to it without hassle, and it would be easier to >> coordinate the efforts to move it into using php streams. I would be >> happy to initiate the move and provide patches against all branches. > Exporting the symbols will do the same. We can move the library > outside but I don't want to do that for one very important reason: > Keep the releases in both pecl and php-src. That's what makes zip very > popular, there is no delay between important fixes and the releases. > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org Best regards, Marcus