Hello Wez, +1
marcus Sunday, February 4, 2007, 8:12:07 PM, you wrote: > We have a need for a search path for extensions, so that we can have > a system provided set of extensions and an optional location for per- > application extensions that either augment or override the baseline > extensions. > To facilitate this, I propose that we create a new directive called > extensions_path that allows the sysadmin to configure a search path > for extensions. I see the usage as going something like this: > extensions_path = "/local/extensions:$DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS_DIR" > Where $DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS_DIR evaluates to the default value of > extensions_dir. > I think it's important to have a symbol for the default location, so > that httpd.conf files don't have to have our API numbers encoded into > them. > I don't mind if the actual symbol we use for the default manifests > differently, so long as it works from within httpd.conf... if > extensions_dir works there. If it's php.ini only, I'm happy to use > the existing constant expansion stuff we have for php.in... if that > will work in a path string syntax. > I also don't mind if we simply expand extensions_dir to behave in > this manner. > I just want to gather some feedback before writing some code. > To be super clear, I don't propose changing anything other than the > searching behavior for extensions. > --Wez. Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
