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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] APC distribute cache/dump files?
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

The original question was for something akin to Zend Guard which is an
encryption mechanism. There really are no plans for that.

-Rasmus

On 07/22/2011 09:40 AM, Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> I know the political discussions like "not needed" etc.
> But imho it might also be useful in corner-cases when you'd need an
> on-disk-cache etc.
> 
> So if we have a volunteer to add it and it could maybe be done "cleanly"
> (plugin-API, ...) I'd appreciate if you'd allow him to try to come up
> with a solution :-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
>  Stefan
> 
> On 07/22/2011 06:15 PM, Pierre Joye wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> The 4.x plans went a bit to nowhere while there are good ideas in there.
>>
>> Moving the user cache out of the opcode cache is one of them. At the
>> same time we could prepare something to have a driver based (simple)
>> cache API. I plan to add persistent caching in the next couple of
>> month so I may do this as well, as long as Gopal or Rasmus are fine
>> with the idea.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:56 PM, John Carter
>> <jcarter@identitynetworks.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to make APC work in a similar way to Zend Guard et
>>> al so that we could distribute cache/dump files instead of the php
>>> source. Is this something that would be easy to add?
>>>
>>> Brian is this what you're working on? ("on disk cache" from
>>> https://wiki.php.net/pecl/apc/todo/40?s[]=apc).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John.
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Carter
>>> Development Manager
>>> Identity Networks