Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:634 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46067 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2003 11:23:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jawa.at) (213.229.17.146) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2003 11:23:58 -0000 Received: from jawa.at (dings.jawa.at [192.168.200.60]) by jawa.at (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h33BNoD2010413; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:23:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbretter@jawa.at) Message-ID: <3E8C19C6.70201@jawa.at> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:23:50 +0200 Organization: JAWA Management Software GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jani Taskinen CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <1049365813.4312.28.camel@lappi.lappi.chregu.tv> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] pecl binaries in PHP Win releases? From: mbretter@jawa.at (Michael Bretterklieber) Hi, Jani Taskinen schrieb: > On 3 Apr 2003, Christian Stocker wrote: > > >>As it's quite hard/expensive for Windows users to compile their own >>extensions, is there a possibility to add some PECL-extensions into the >>Windows releases? Mainly there are ext/radius and ext/imagick, which I >>know do compile on Windows (and wouldn't add that much to the download, >>since ext/imagick for example does not statically compile the whole >>imagemagick libraries) >> >>Would be great, if someone could add them to the windows compile scripts >>on snaps.php.net. > > > Why not make a separate package of the extra extensions..? > in general its a good idea, but I'm thinking about how Webspace-Providers are installing and maintaining PHP, everything what is not in the "standard" distribution doesen't exist for them. It's already a problem to convince them installing additional "standard" extensions or PEAR. One possibility would be to move nearly (some extensions should stay in the PHP-dist like DB-extensions) all extensions to this extra package, then they have no chance to come around installing this extra package. bye, -- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Michael Bretterklieber - Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at JAWA Management Software GmbH - http://www.jawa.at Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 -------------- privat ------------ A-8041 GRAZ GSM: ++43-(0)676-84 03 15 712 Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 E-mail: michael@bretterklieber.com Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 http://www.bretterklieber.com ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972