On 26.08.2014 22:30, Andrea Faulds wrote: > On 26 Aug 2014, at 21:08, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > >> That would make building PHP for non-internals person harder and the >> list of dependencies they need to get right longer. While providing zero >> added value. And yes, there are a lot of non-internals persons building >> PHP. Sometimes they may even use git. > > Why would a non-internals person want to build PHP from git? That’s just > making things harder on themselves. Besides PHP itself (should my proposal > succeed), you need other extra dependencies, including a lexer generator if > Nikita’s proposal succeeds. >
Why would an internals person (for various vague definitions of this term) install php only because they want to build it? Maybe I'm the exception here but I am regularly building various versions of php on my laptop without having any version *installed*. I also would prefer to keep this out of the dependencies. Greetings, Florian -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
