Re: interested in open sourcing a PHP profiler

Joe Stump wrote:

c) Internally we have been calling this PHProf (short for Php Hierarchical PROFiler) for a while now. But we realized after reading (http://www.php.net/license/) that this isn't desirable. Will changing the name be a precondition for hosting/approval into PECL?

I can't say for sure, but I'm guessing the name would have to be changed.

If it is in pecl in the php.net cvs tree then we have some control of it and the name would be ok. However, it is a bit redundant, I think in the pecl context. I can't think of any pecl extension that has PHP directly in its name. I also don't see a problem with pecl extensions having some userspace bits associated with them. pecl/apc has apc.php which is the info page for the extension. pecl/inclued has some script to take the generated include data and create nice graphviz charts. I don't see this as being very different from that. -Rasmus