Johannes Schlüter wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 09:11 -0800, Michael Shadle wrote: >> Agreed. PECL is a bit hard to navigate. It gets the job done, and you >> can use command line utils to grab the packages too (that was part of >> my suggestion) > > To get even more off-topic: We're happy about contributors! The PHP > project is quite limited on people working on the websites, every help > welcome. > > And to justify the mail a bit more: Brian Moon said in this thread about > PHP: "a ./configure && make && make install are the most commonly used > things and things that users _expect_ to be there." Which isn't true. > PHP by default enables only modules which don't depend on external > libraries, so no zlib support, no mysql supprt, no openssl, ... by > default. But as there's no rule without exception: XML support, > depending on libxml2, is enabled by default and some libs (pcre for > instance, sqlite) are bundled and activated, while then again not all > bundled libs are activated (gd, as gd optionally depends on libjpeg, > libpng, ...) > > So it's a chaos and no example to follow. > > What I find more interesting in PHP is the way modules (extensions) are > handled bythe build system so they can easily be compiled statically in > PHP or as .so and can be built stand alone without the the complete PHP > sources ...
Yup... we have just added support for this in drizzle too. I _REALLY_ need to write that blog post... _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
