Re: Suggestion

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Moeen Khurshid <moeenkhursheed@gmail.com>wrote: > It would be a good idea if you guys can set up a multiple selection > criterion for building php, like jquery so that it would save the users > trouble of building the source with .configure. They can download > preconfigured packages on based on selections. > > We can easily do it here but the ones who are starting up using php might > not be too much familiar to enable / disable extensions and other switches > using ./configure -- ext ... > > Is the intent here a GUI for ./configure or an easier way to setup a development environment for novices? I think that for most novices, depending on your package manager to install PHP and its relevant extensions is a non-issue. At least for most popular linux distributions you have most extensions separated out into different packages so that you can install/uninstall them at will. Once you get into a full-blown project with specific development replication requirements vagrant becomes a nice added touch.