Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4/ext/midgard config.m4) From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 03/19/01

> Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >
> > At 02:04 20/3/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > >No, we need tighter integration. We want to be able to do something along
> > >the lines of "pear pear.php.net/midgard" and it would go and fetch
> > >the the component, build it and install it.
> >
> > I completely agree with Andi about this. If it won't be simple, it will
> > simply not be. We can start simple, and work our way up.
>
> For unixoids, this could probably be a glue script that uses CVS.
> There'd
> probably need to be checkin-time phpize setup or somesuch to make it
> distribution-ready, or people would need autoconf et al on their systems
> allways.
>
> I don't know how this would work for windows system, though.

Well, just like the snapshots at snaps.php.net, any C extensions should be
pre-autoconfed and should not require it on the user end. And no, we
don't want to do software distribution via cvs. Straight HTTP should be
fine.

-Rasmus 

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