Jyri Virkki wrote: > Sriram Natarajan wrote: > >> Hi >> To simplify development / deployment with php in opensolaris, we >> deliver various additional extensions like suhosin, tcpwrap, idn, xdebug >> etc within our PHP package (SUNWphp52u) . However, they are not enabled >> by default. User will need to manually enable them by editing the ini >> files. Going forward, I would like to split these extensions into their >> own packages and installing this package will automatically enable this >> extension. If any one thinks this is a crazy idea, please let me know ? >> > > In general, sounds good. Ideally we want Web Stack components to "just > work" by installing the corresponding package(s), so your proposal is > in line with the goal. >
If I may offer a counterpoint on this.... Part of that means working as the user is expecting to when coming from another platform. My concern with this approach is those new to pkg would have to grok it and how it wires in the extensions. I don't know enough about the expereine with these extensions on other platforms, but I'm guessing they're installed by default. Might it be better to include the common extensions and perhaps even build some utility to turn them on and off? Maybe that's what the package manager is, but that seems somewhat confusing. I would highly recommend some kind of "EXTENSIONS" readme file or other comments in the appropriate .ini files to clue users in to how to obtain other functionality in any event. Just my opinion.... - Matt
