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Reply-To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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To: Wez Furlong <wez@omniti.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC extensions_path directive
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Wez,

  +1

marcus

Sunday, February 4, 2007, 8:12:07 PM, you wrote:

> We have a need for a search path for extensions, so that we can have  
> a system provided set of extensions and an optional location for per- 
> application extensions that either augment or override the baseline  
> extensions.

> To facilitate this, I propose that we create a new directive called  
> extensions_path that allows the sysadmin to configure a search path  
> for extensions.  I see the usage as going something like this:

> extensions_path = "/local/extensions:$DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS_DIR"

> Where $DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS_DIR evaluates to the default value of  
> extensions_dir.
> I think it's important to have a symbol for the default location, so  
> that httpd.conf files don't have to have our API numbers encoded into  
> them.

> I don't mind if the actual symbol we use for the default manifests  
> differently, so long as it works from within httpd.conf... if  
> extensions_dir works there.  If it's php.ini only, I'm happy to use  
> the existing constant expansion stuff we have for php.in... if that  
> will work in a path string syntax.

> I also don't mind if we simply expand extensions_dir to behave in  
> this manner.

> I just want to gather some feedback before writing some code.

> To be super clear, I don't propose changing anything other than the  
> searching behavior for extensions.

> --Wez.




Best regards,
 Marcus