>> 3. Do you know where is the source code of these two scripts? When the >> upstream script gets updated it would be then useful to copy/paste >> changes into php-src. So the main development should be happening >> upstream anyway. Meaning away from the PHP. > > > I don't know what to say on that.
P.S. I've found sources at Debian mainstream: https://sources.debian.org/src/php-defaults/69/php-helper/ Overall, I think this might be too Debian specific tool. PECL is something that works in similar way. And it installs entire extension from scratch together with compiling... PECL approach is something that PHP should go into. Or, the more taboo way - Composer installable extensions. There was some work done on that but it got stuck because it is very large change and now nobody knows how to do that from that step. Basically, a Composer plugin might be a better start with this. Except that here we need to understand that PHP packages on Linux distributions are already compiled and prepared for faster installation, so installing extensions with PECL is a way different approach compared to a more comfortable ways using apt/yum/dnf/pacman/brew... -- Peter Kokot -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
