hiya, sorry to jump in a little late here,
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 09:03:08 pm Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > So if you think the multi-path extension_dir= change isn't going to be
> > accepted to PHP53, I might as well stop right here.
>
> I don't know - it depends how broad is the need for it and how other
> developers perceive it.
just to throw in my 0.02 $LC_MONETARY, it would be really useful to have
something like this in debian and other php-packaging distributions out
there.
consider the scenario where a user installs via the package management system
the php core plus extensions a, b, and c. they later want to install
extension d (which is not packaged) via pecl, and update/override extension
c.
currently what happens is pecl (there's a similar situation with pear btw)
installs to the same location as the packaged files, creating a rather
schizophrenic environment where you can't be sure what came from a package
and what was locally installed. and further, the next time extension c's
package is upgraded, the local changes will be lost.
now if there were a multi-extension-dir functionality available, we could do
something like saying "first check /usr/local/blah, and if that fails,
check /usr/blah", where the latter is for the debian stuff. then pecl could
be set to default to the /usr/local directory, eliminating the problem. fwiw
something quite similar is done by perl--i believe it provides 3 directories
actually: a "perl" directory, a "vendor" directory, and a "site" directory,
but it's the same concept.
anyway, hope to see something like this down the line!
sean
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