On Friday, September 19, 2003 1:51, Wez Furlong wrote: > [Sorry for mass-mailing those of you who are not already subscribed to the > pecl-dev list, but please read on and hopefully you will choose to subscribe > anyway]
> We need to foster a greater sense of community for people writing PHP > extensions, and I have been elected (by unanimous peer pressure!) to be "The > King of PECL". God save the King! > - Hosting your source code in the official PECL CVS. > Very useful if other people would like to help you with your work. > Automated testing and (win32) binary generation - if you use our standard > "PHP test" files, we can periodically run the test suite and post the > results online - this will help increase the quality of your extension. > In addition, the PHP snapshot generator can build windows binaries for you > automatically (if you have a windows project file that is!). I'm specially interested in that point. I have something like a RFC about PECL binary creation and distribution, but it definetly needs to be reviewed by you. > - An open packaging and delivery mechanism and tools so that the end-user > can easily download and install your extension. > The installation tool is/will be a part of the standard PHP distribution > and can download and install your package from the internet. Your package > doesn't have to be hosted on the official PECL site for this to work. Of course, from PEAR we offer all our help in this point. Feel free to report any issue with the installer to make it more compatible with PECL. Nice to see the hot potatoe falling in good hands ;) -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
