Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/19/01

At 09:16 PM 4/18/2001 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > >When we're past the prototyping phase and stuff stabilizes, a C
> > >rewrite may be a good idea, but I don't think it is now.
> >
> > Well you know the most permanent things are temporary things such as
> > prototypes.
> > I also thought it would make much more sense to create something very small
> > in C (maybe even Perl as it's installed on all systems) and use that.
> > I'm not really sure anymore what this installer you are talking about looks
> > like. So I think it would be good to get a small update and have a
> > discussion of what we need on php-dev <email protected>
>
>I see no issue with writing a prototype in PHP. The start of such a
>prototype is in cvs (pear/script/pear)
>
>And yes, using XML is pretty much a no-brainer here. That will allow a
>lot of different nifty tools to access the package information.

For a start you don't have PHP installed on most systems. So PHP would need
to compile itself and then fetch packages and recompile itself. Seems to me
like the no-brainer isn't such a no-brainer.

Andi 

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