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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Extension Prepend Files
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> The first reason is that, if we consider a released extension as a
> conceptual unit, the best way to protect its integrity is to store it
> as a single file. Storing it as separate files brings a lot of
> potential issues : files can be renamed, deleted, etc. Offline tools

Yet people have been releasing mulfi-file software packages for decades,
and it seems to work fine and the software world has yet to collapse
under these problems. Which suggests they maybe not as severe as they
seem to be.

> code. But, if we consider the PHP code as an integral part of the
> extension, this should be avoided, as C and PHP code need to be kept
> in sync.

Again, there is a multitude of solutions for this, all in the realm of
packaging. It's not like we've just encountered the idea of software
package having more than one file.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com