On Wednesdayen den 3 April 2002 19.30, Alexander Skwar wrote: > �Oden Eriksson� sagte am 2002-04-03 um 19:19:44 +0200 : > > Yes in theory it works just fine, but it's not easy to accomplish... It > > would take me forever to do it this way and have the stuff working that i > > mentioned here: http://d-srv.com/phpinfo.html > > Well, to be honest, for my private use, I also recompile PHP with the > needed --with's. But as far as the distribution is concerned, I can > understand the current way of doing things. In theory, you won't need > to recompile the main php package and thus can easily upgrade to new > RPM releases without losing anything. Not so with the RedHat way of > doing things, or am I wrong?
The only benefit the ML way of doing it is that you _can_ add extensions afterworth, but as you have noticed it's damn difficult. The fact that you _can_ do this and what's practical is two different things. It depends so much on if this and that is supported in the main php package. For instance, the changes I made to the imap-2000a package (the ssl aware devel package). To even build the php-imap package since this change will also require changes to the main php package. So what's the use of doing it this way? Next time one would like some other support in php, it may all start all over again, and it might even require that all php-* stuff is rebuilt. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson
