Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:53116 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82579 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2011 05:24:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jun 2011 05:24:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.20.127 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.20.127 c2bthomr09.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.20.127] ([213.123.20.127:42556] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 26/C1-05574-9F5BDED4 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:24:10 -0400 Received: from host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com (EHLO _10.0.0.4_) ([81.138.11.136]) by c2bthomr09.btconnect.com with ESMTP id DEH17491; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:24:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4DEDB5F6.8050600@lsces.co.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:24:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SUSE/2.0.14-2.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <8757232E56758B42B2EE4F9D2CA019C901499F97@US-EX2.zend.net> <97.45.23189.8060DED4@pb1.pair.com> <4DED5F9B.7060101@thelounge.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=tid=0001.0A020302.4DEDB5F6.00EE, actions=tag X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2011.6.7.43618:17:7.586, ip=81.138.11.136, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJECT_ENDING_IN_LATIN_OR_NUMERALS, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1400_1499, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2bthomr09.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0207.4DEDB5F6.008F,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundling "modern" extensions From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Martin Scotta wrote: >>> It'd be very nice if some extension could be enabled just by dropping the >>> "extension file" on the path. >>> So developers can check what they have using phpinfo, and then upload the >>> needed extension using ftp. Is it possible? >> >> if a "developer" only would try such idiotic action >> he would lost his accounts forever and get fired from >> one day to the next! >> >> WTF how can anybody have the idea that it would be a good >> idea to let non-sysadmins uplod and execute binaries on a >> server? > Thanks you for all yours responses. > Now it's clear what the issue is... the usage of compiled "libraries". > > We need some middleware between the core and PHP. > That way extensions could be written in PHP, compiled and distributed in > some "library" format. > Library users just add them into their path, include them, and use the > classes/functions as usual. > > - No OS dependence > - minimum dependence with core version > - size of core will reduce drastically > - faster runtime, include only what libs you use, as you need them That one is PEAR .... http://pear.php.net/ -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php