Re: Suggestion

GUI, I would say Ideally something like http://jqueryui.com/download/ , not sure if this would be possible in near future. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > 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. >