"I've been looking into the existing PECL setup, preparing the way for
putting package release DLLs on pecl.php.net."
... which I've been talking about doing for the last three months. And?
The rest talks about the DLL info information, and we have had a begin
of a discussion about the needs... but heh, it's really boring to end
in such discussions... Have a good night.
It's boring because you're too busy fighting me to help solve the problem. I put up a request for brainstorming in the hope that someone might see it and come up with a simple solution I hadn't thought of, but actually it doesn't look as though there is one.
The immediate problem I'm trying to resolve is release DLLs, pure and simple. Not snapshots, not branches, nothing complicated, just this one basic thing. If this part goes well it becomes possible to start looking at the rest, but at present (I think you'd agree) PECL is total anarchy.. and it's not possible to do anything complicated when there's no underlying common structure. So basically we need to find a way to implement a common structure and make sure all PECL packages adhere to it. The package.xml file already does this for package releases, but not for anything else...
- Steph