At 10:03 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
>["Sean R. Bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > To continue a tangent... I don't like the idea of having the PEAR
> > fetching/installation mechanism written in PHP (already some base code in
> > PEAR to do this). It seems to me that it forces the user to download/build
> > PHP and then download and rebuild PHP with any extensions that don't
> come in
> > the base distribution. Instead it should be a binary that can be compiled
> > before PHP is built, can download and configure any extensions
> requested and
> > then build the resulting PHP binary. We can also build in a dependency
> > mechanism where for example, someone chooses to install a PEAR module
> (be it
> > PHP or C) and the required extensions would be downloaded as well.
> >
> > Just my $0.02
>
>I see your point, but personally I code 5 times faster in PHP than in
>C, and I want to get this done now, not next year. :-)
>
>When we're past the prototyping phase and stuff stabilizes, a C
>rewrite may be a good idea, but I don't think it is now.
Well you know the most permanent things are temporary things such as
prototypes.
I also thought it would make much more sense to create something very small
in C (maybe even Perl as it's installed on all systems) and use that.
I'm not really sure anymore what this installer you are talking about looks
like. So I think it would be good to get a small update and have a
discussion of what we need on php-dev@.
Thanks,
Andi
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