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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8.1 and PECL ext builds for Windows
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 14.11.2021 at 19:28, tyson andre wrote:

> With the release for php 8.1.0 stable happening Nov 25 (https://wiki.php=
.net/todo/php81),
> what decision ended up being made (I couldn't tell if it was still being=
 discussed from the thread)?
> To publish Windows DLLs for PECLs for PHP 8.1 after 8.1.0 stable or not =
to publish?
> I saw the proposal but didn't see any public announcement of plans,
> and usually DLLs had been published earlier.
>
> - If there are plans to get 8.1.0 working, what work is remaining (e.g. =
is there an issue tracker/list of tasks)?
>   (I'm a Linux user, but I'd hope even if the windows team didn't have t=
ime, developers from large organizations may have time to look into those =
issues or get builds for individual extensions working, if those organizat=
ions used Windows and were migrating to php 8.1)
>
> https://externals.io/message/114751#114759 sounded like there were plans=
 to
> build DLLs for PECLs with GitHub workflows instead of the current machin=
e,
> but I'm not sure of the status of those plans.
>
> If php 8.1 DLL support was being dropped, I saw nothing communicating a =
change (or status of getting DLL builds+publishing working for php 8.1)
> in the following places:
>
> - https://news-web.php.net/group.php?group=3Dphp.internals.win
> - https://marc.info/?l=3Dpecl-dev&w=3D2&r=3D1&s=3Ddll&q=3Db
> - https://windows.php.net/ ("Where are the PECL DLLs" is an unrelated an=
nouncement that was resolved)
> - https://twitter.com/official_php
>
> As an arbitrary example, https://pecl.php.net/package/xdebug/3.1.1/windo=
ws mentions
> "In case of missing DLLs, consider to contact the PHP for Windows Team."
>
> - If DLL publishing would end up being discontinued (or delayed) for PHP=
 8.1+, the footer common to all PECLs should be updated to indicate that.
>
> I was delaying working on publishing DLLs for PECL releases until I was =
certain what the decision was,
> or if DLLs would continue to be published.

Sorry for any potential confusion!  There are currently no plans to
change anything (some things *might* change in the long run, but that
would be announced).  The fact that no snapshot builds of PECL
extensions for 8.1 have been yet done, is my fault.  I forgot to update
the build script to do so; I've just caught up on that, so that new PECL
releases are supposed to build snapshots which would not be shown on
pecl.php.net, but could be downloaded from
<https://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/snaps/>.

A full mass rebuild for all PECL packages is planned a few weeks after
PHP 8.1.0 has been released.  If anybody needs a snapshot build for a
specific PECL package release right now, please ping me and I can
trigger that build.

=2D-
Christoph M. Becker