Sebastian Bergmann in php.internals (Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:36:49 +0100): >Am 27.01.2015 um 21:13 schrieb Pierre Joye: >> However there is one thing we do need to care, and this is 3rd party >> extensions. This is all I care about and why I initiated pickle. > > It just that I am not convinced that the problem you are trying to solve > with a tool such as pickle exists. From my experience, people either > build everything manually from source (because they work on the source) > or they install binaries packaged by a vendor using the appropriate > package manager.
The problem is a real one. One example: for Windows PECL extensions are buolt at http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/ The current trend makes it virtually impossible to add PHP7 to these builds, because for instance you have to checkout 'phpng' branches for propro, raphf and pecl_http and the 'phpseven' branch for imagick. At the moment that these branches are merged into master and separate branches for PHP5 are created, the PHP5 builds will be broken. If you aren't involved in developing the sources of an extension it becomes a trial-and-error game to see if the extension builds for PHP7. Jan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
