Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:93229 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 43090 invoked from network); 11 May 2016 11:57:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 May 2016 11:57:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rowan.collins@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rowan.collins@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.45 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rowan.collins@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.82.45 mail-wm0-f45.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.45] ([74.125.82.45:36342] helo=mail-wm0-f45.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4D/79-28272-44E13375 for ; Wed, 11 May 2016 07:57:56 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id n129so216390301wmn.1 for ; Wed, 11 May 2016 04:57:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hda1R/PZAgDroIQ8TVFVcrZu+g3//VgNRt7oty/jpNo=; b=N1YPIYZ9wXXz1281T2PQnnKn1GTRDqJ23ZGJqsJgEIYoV1ZAbLUCAuQSLeVIkOvinB KIetZ7Qu/90J8z388ncKbdt2UTrTOmlZ9hNEE1lm33RJgvW0D1dpzzmQjpegBxkfnvi0 B82XaAwV4G4gPY3eY/qr/yL6MS7gyVieFkz17D2OqVfSga/vMeOl0MHL66zbXP0be4Bm wxxeuzOXJvy3ExiOtUoAlwyBeSmD98+ORWgoYxdbKzZc/VDmawLqxaWOkJF4p/aX59Kh rSWPQX0lGTD6ZDbv01PL5ZFghFKE36tvgE+gfUs3pjV4Jh2tKp8XtomBRvjZsCtdX0TV YPrQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hda1R/PZAgDroIQ8TVFVcrZu+g3//VgNRt7oty/jpNo=; b=XeR4BwBBvkw7jQoO5HNnxPbNDqLaWz12F2hsytvCNptPK2y80rzyzaRP/29Zmu0Kd1 T1xtKE3kpgPDv4M9oIlBogq+3y8rnoU/eFtBPQIrVRa4hHGv77b8d4kEkqfoJYlkjEIZ nZsl9ddR3fcOa1M5ITIZoLbD9K0thdtpPy/rPKTNJBeynHch9HaStwckPVCV6mOzLOOC /QIhSUkzpMukf0Sj5UlLbxv35J8Aa0L3Iau3TCPnO45V83quxRY4BdFMsD0F/s+xZkFo bkIdArPs7SSo8PF23GNwk0L6UDHwbh2e0xaRJ8kqHFyIZMP24TZ9Wau3rlyQxEB8UwyX njhQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FUklVFsr4BRqrlUyUPVyBusbuwD37OYXtJJJRZyzsVzlmNE5FrWopHBU1BJZ1xyUg== X-Received: by 10.28.156.195 with SMTP id f186mr3851384wme.74.1462967873655; Wed, 11 May 2016 04:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.98] ([93.188.182.58]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d1sm7697252wjb.47.2016.05.11.04.57.52 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 May 2016 04:57:52 -0700 (PDT) To: internals@lists.php.net References: <59e5902d-004f-33b5-5d6f-991d89371e05@php.net> <124101109CE9C1419F74344AA1F1CCB82810150353@Ikarus.ameusgmbh.intern> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 12:55:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <124101109CE9C1419F74344AA1F1CCB82810150353@Ikarus.ameusgmbh.intern> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow loading extensions by name From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins) On 11/05/2016 07:20, Christian Stoller wrote: > Why not just naming them *.so on all platforms While it can't be relied on, a file suffix does communicate something about the type of the file. Someone might list the downloads for an extension as "foo.so (for Linux/Unix); foo.dll (for Windows)" and it would be obvious what format the files were in.