Re: [PHP-DEV] distributing windows binaries (dll's) of PECL's

[Michael Bretterklieber]

Hi,

Edin Kadribasic schrieb:

We already bundle several pecl extensions in the win32 distro
(printer, iisfunc, etc.) I could add radius to the list.

that would be great!

But how can I provide upgrades of the PECL?
then the user has to wait until a new php-version is released.

That is a larger question. I'm afraid that there are no satisfactory
aswers to it yet. PECL infrastructure is still pretty much
non-existent. But you're welcome to help defining and implementing
it :)

My idea is to move the responsibility for stable PECL's to the maintainers of the PECL's. The maintainers should provide stable versions of PECL for the different php-versions, therefore I would like to make a bin directory in each PECL-dir.
pecl/radius/bin
and then
pecl/radius/bin/php4.2.3/win32/php_radius.dll
or
pecl/radius/bin/php4.2.3/freebsd4/radius.so
pecl/radius/bin/php4.2.3/linux-glibc21/radius.so
and so on.
Or maybe its better to make a cvs tag instead of different subdirs for different php versions?

If the distribution is generated, then its not needed to compile every PECL, the distributors just take the version from the appropriate dir. If no files are found, then the PECL is not included into the distr.

This would also help if users download the PECL from the pear-web, because they then have also binaries and they don't need to compile it.
.. and the pear web can be used for providing updates of PECL's.

bye,
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