Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/printer php_printer.h printer.c printer.dsp /win32 php_modules.dsw From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 10/29/00

Yes but we should start discussing on HOW to do it.
I would like there to be a mechanism for people to see available extensions
either via a command line command or via the web and be able to easily
(maybe with one command) copy that extension to php4/ext followed by an
automatic ./buildconf.

Andi

At 09:13 AM 10/29/00 -0800, rasmus <email protected> wrote:
>I think PEAR should be able to handle PHP extensions as well as the PHP
>user-space classes it is handling now. That is similar to the way CPAN
>works.
>
>-Rasmus
>
>On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> > At 01:24 PM 10/28/00 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > >On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > > > PEAR (the PHP code at least) is part of the PHP 4 CVS. I was
> talking about
> > > > some repository where you can see PHP extensions and have some script
> > > which
> > > > will automatically put them in php4/ext and possible ./buildconf
> for you.
> > >
> > >PEAR should not really be part of PHP CVS. It is only so for the time
> > >being. Original discussion between Stig and me was about having it on
> > >pear.php.net similar to cpan.org.
> >
> > Well let's re-open this discussion on php-dev@ and see what we can do.
> > I don't know CPAN too well but I'm sure lots of people know the
> > strengths/problems with it and we might be able to come up with
> something nice.
> > In my opinion, it should be kept as simple as possible so that it will be
> > easy to implement and easy to use.
> > There are two main issues:
> > a) How do people post their stuff?
> > b) How do people retrieve things from there?
> >
> > Of course, each of these two issues have quite a lot of sub-issues which
> > need to be discussed and the hard part will be where to we draw the line
> > and not go into more detail.
> >
> > Andi
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> > Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>
> > http://www.zend.com/
> >
> >
>
>
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