Hi Francois, On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:44 PM, François Laupretre <franc...@php.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'd like to open a discussion about a new PHP extension named PCS. > > PCS stands for 'PHP Code Service' and it is (yet) another way to mix C and > PHP code in extensions. > > Some months ago (January 2015), we had come to the conclusion that two > issues needed to be solved : allow the PHP code to be opcache-d, and avoid > loading every script at RINIT. PCS proposes a solution for both via a > stream wrapper and an autoloader. > > During this discussion, it also became clear that two different sources of > PHP scripts should be supported : some want to embed and distribute scripts > in the compiled module, and others want to store them in a separate > location on the host. So, PCS supports both architectures or even a mix of > both. > > The documentation is available at http://pcs.tekwire.net : > > - the 'Introduction' document details the pros and cons of the different > approaches, > - and a tutorial describes in details how to embed the MongoDB PHP library > in the MongoDB C extension. > > If this discussion results in a positive consensus, and because PCS may > potentially be used to rewrite parts of core extensions from C to PHP, I'll > write an RFC proposing to include it in the 7.1 core distrib. > we already chatted about PCS privately, again here I want to mention my support for this kind of solution. I think its very valuable to have this kind of support available in PHP to ship PHP code in C extensions. Huge +1 from me for the work, i'd love to see this in PHP 7.1 > > Note : don't use the 'pecl install' command to get PCS, download from > PECL. I still need to find a workaround for the 'pecl' command bug. > > Regards > > François > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
