Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:637 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 90370 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2003 12:42:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO idoru.deadmime.org) (141.157.76.196) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2003 12:42:11 -0000 Received: from deadmime.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idoru.deadmime.org (8.12.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h33CgEHw002915 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:42:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:42:14 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1049365813.4312.28.camel@lappi.lappi.chregu.tv> Message-ID: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] pecl binaries in PHP Win releases? From: dank@deadmime.org (Dan Kalowsky) References: <1049365813.4312.28.camel@lappi.lappi.chregu.tv> On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 05:30 AM, 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) There was talk of providing PECL binary download system awhile back for users of Windows (and potentially OS X). The biggest problem with providing such a service was PHP had no infrastructure to certify releases. AKA an end user had no way to authenticate and prove that a binary download originated from and is issued by the PHP Group. Marko Karrapinen had written up a proposal for doing just this in August 2002, but unfortunately, it hadn't gone much further than that. > Would be great, if someone could add them to the windows compile > scripts > on snaps.php.net. I would like to suggest that this NOT happen until we can provide an authorization mechanism. All it takes is one rogue extension compiled and written by someone outside of the PHP Group to destroy the already fragile trust in the PECL system. >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "Momma take this badge offa me, http://www.deadmime.org/~dank I can't use it anymore." dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org - "Knockin on Heavens Door", kalowsky@php.net Bob Dylan