Christian Stocker schrieb:
+1For now, I see no reason not to make them available (provided that its not too much effort for Edin to set up the build env on the snaps machine).
I agree here completely with Wez, I don't see a difference between compiling extensions from php4/ext to compiling pear/PECL extensions on snaps. It's more or less the same deal, except that it's in another directory.
The main problem is that there is no infrastructure right now to provide binaries within PEAR/PECL, so there's no pear commandline command to install those packages at all without recompiling. And not everyone has a compiler on Windows nor do they know, how to compile something. I have the
another problem is that many users nothing know about PECL, they don't know that there are also other extensions wich are not in the PHP-dist.
I also don't see PECL's as 3thrd party extensions or 2nd class software, otherwise developers who must move their extension to PECL can realy feel that this is like "putting to /dev/null" (my appologies for that sentence in advance).
And it would be also motivating for PECL developers seeing his "baby" within an official PHP-dist, even if its "only" a second .zip with extra packages for download.
I think this would be great first step for providing PECL binaries.possibility to compile some PECL extensions for Windows and put them online for downloading, but I don't see a reason to do that (besides that the windows compiler is not on my box and I have to wait for an opportunity to use it), when we have such a nice infrastructure with the snaps thingy (and the great work of Edin). We don't even have to include them in the offficial release, but maybe just add an additional zip-package with the PECL extensions.
bye,
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