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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Compatibility library for extensions
From: thruska@cubiclesoft.com (Thomas Hruska)

On 11/10/2015 7:53 AM, François Laupretre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of you may be interested by a project I just released at
> https://github.com/flaupretre/pecl-compat.
>
> This is a compatibility library. The objective is to minimize the pain
> of making a PHP extension compatible with both PHP 5 and 7, while
> allowing to keep a single code tree.
>
> Of course, it does not bring solutions to every cases you may encounter
> and some 'ifdef' will still remain, but it solves a lot of issues,
> especially related to changes in zend_string and zend_hash, which were
> the most annoying in my case.
>
> For an example of an extension using this compatibility layer, look at
> https://github.com/flaupretre/pecl-pcs.
>
> Feel free to comment, test, and suggest improvements.
>
> Regards
>
> François

Oooh.  Interesting.  Saving for later when I get around to updating my 
PECL extension for PHP 7 (probably Q1 2016).

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