Re: [PHP-DEV] file structure From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 03/31/99

At 02:13 31/03/99 +0200, Stig Bakken wrote:
>Back when we were going to release 3.1, we re-structred all the files. At
>the same time, we changed the API, and it was a real mess for a long time.
>Looking back, I can see us facing some of the same problems in the next
>major release. The lesson that needs to be learnt is to do one thing at a
>time: change file structure or change API. Doing both at the same time
>will make the problem bigger than the sum of each problem.
>
>I suggest that we change the file structure now, in the php3 tree. IMHO
>that is the easiest way to make sure further changes are incorporated in
>the re-structured source tree. We can base the new structure on the ideas
>in the desolated php31 tree:
>
> php3/ext [each extension has its own dir]
> php3/ext/mysql
> php3/ext/ldap
> ...
> php3/lib/regex
> php3/lib/win32
> php3/main [parser and other vital infrastructure]
> php3/sapi [server modules]
> php3
>
>I would like to set up php3/main so you can do a "make install" and
>install header files, libraries and perhaps some tools to make it possible
>to compile other applications using PHP code (such as third-party
>dynamically loadable extensions or PHP RPC servers).
>
>When time comes to integrate Zend, that will be easier with this
>structure.

That's a big mistake IMHO. Zend is today, already, a separate library that
separated the vast majority of 'core' files into a completely different
directory, even a different package. A lot of the files in the main dir
were removed, almost all of them were pulled out into the ZendCore
directory, etc.

The current tree will hopefully hit core@ this Saturday or next Sunday.
Investing work in the php3 tree is a waste of time IMHO, since most of it
would have to be completely remade for PHP4; plus, it's not as if there's
too much idle time left for it...

Zeev 

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