Re: Bundling "modern" extensions

From: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:08:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Bundling "modern" extensions
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:39:34 +0200, Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]> wrote:


On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:03 +0100, Keloran wrote:

As far as I can see there are very few extension that are really needed in
the core, the main problem comes from distributions changing the methods
that PECL works or the core works

e.g.
Ubuntu you need to install the -dev version in order for extension to be
compiled/installed
Gentoo you need to either write your own ebuild for a pecl extension, hope
one exists, or go through lots of hoops to get them to work


Both have many "popular" PECL modules available.



If there is a stable version upstream, I add and maintain ebuilds for pretty much every PECL package that is requested on bugs.gentoo.org.
Creating your own ebuild is also often as difficult as copying and renaming an existing PECL package.
Also, since PEAR_PEAR-1.9.2-r2 you should be able to just use pecl. Of course, if you do this, you have to make sure your system remains sane.

As the maintainer of PHP on Gentoo, I prefer extensions in pecl over being bundled with php.

-- 
Ole Markus

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