I think the solution would be to allow PECL to optionally fetch the
libraries an extension depends on, quite like FreeBSD ports.
It is exactly as much work as bundling them altogether, of course,
but at least we avoid the impact on our distribution size.
mk
Actually, this is quite
Shane:
For situations like this, perhaps we can 'bundle' libraries in PECL.
The make system could examine the system for the library, if it is not
installed, or is not the required version, it could ask the user if they
want to have it downloaded/built/installed automaticly.
I agree, except
