As it's quite hard/expensive for Windows users to compile their own extensions, is there a possibility to add some PECL-extensions into the Windows releases? Mainly there are ext/radius and ext/imagick, which I know do compile on Windows (and wouldn't add that much to the download, since ext/imagick for example does not statically compile the whole imagemagick libraries)
There was talk of providing PECL binary download system awhile back for users of Windows (and potentially OS X). The biggest problem with providing such a service was PHP had no infrastructure to certify releases. AKA an end user had no way to authenticate and prove that a binary download originated from and is issued by the PHP Group.
Marko Karrapinen had written up a proposal for doing just this in August 2002, but unfortunately, it hadn't gone much further than that.
Would be great, if someone could add them to the windows compile scripts
on snaps.php.net.
I would like to suggest that this NOT happen until we can provide an authorization mechanism. All it takes is one rogue extension compiled and written by someone outside of the PHP Group to destroy the already fragile trust in the PECL system.
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