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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 18:44:41 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] phpenmod/phpdismod
From: walterp@gmail.com (Walter Parker)

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On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 1:06 PM Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> 3. Do you know where is the source code of these two scripts? When the
> >> upstream script gets updated it would be then useful to copy/paste
> >> changes into php-src. So the main development should be happening
> >> upstream anyway. Meaning away from the PHP.
> >
> >
> > I don't know what to say on that.
>
> P.S. I've found sources at Debian mainstream:
> https://sources.debian.org/src/php-defaults/69/php-helper/
>
> Overall, I think this might be too Debian specific tool. PECL is
> something that works in similar way. And it installs entire extension
> from scratch together with compiling... PECL approach is something
> that PHP should go into. Or, the more taboo way - Composer installable
> extensions. There was some work done on that but it got stuck because
> it is very large change and now nobody knows how to do that from that
> step. Basically, a Composer plugin might be a better start with this.
> Except that here we need to understand that PHP packages on Linux
> distributions are already compiled and prepared for faster
> installation, so installing extensions with PECL is a way different
> approach compared to a more comfortable ways using
> apt/yum/dnf/pacman/brew...
>
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> Peter Kokot
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If you can make it work on MacOS, Windows, and the BSDs, then great.
Otherwise, it should be left to the Linux distributions.


Walter
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