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Romain Bourdon

20 years ago
Hi, we used to have a "Collection of PECL modules" for PHP5-Windows but it doesn't seem to have been created for PHP 5.1. I'm searching for it to build a new release of ùy installer WAMP5 with 5.1. Should I directly ask to the PECL team or is this package not going to exist anymore from now on? Thanks for your Answers and great job for 5.1 (especially to Wez for PDO ;-) ) Romain (AFUP)

Hannes Magnusson

20 years ago
Don't know about the package, but you can find all the dll's on http://pecl4win.php.net On 11/25/05, Romain Bourdon <romain@kaptive.com> wrote:

Ilia A.

20 years ago
Romain, You can find the 5.1 win32 binaries for most pecl extensions at: http://pecl4win.php.net Ilia Romain Bourdon wrote:

Romain Bourdon

20 years ago
Ilia Alshanetsky a écrit :
> Romain, > > You can find the 5.1 win32 binaries for most pecl extensions at: > http://pecl4win.php.net > > Ilia
Thanks, i'll have a look there. Romain

Dan Scott

20 years ago
Hmm. Is this expected to be a long-term change to the way we're making the binary version of PECL modules available for a given PHP release? Or did we just miss one part of the release process for 5.1.0? (I've added a comment to http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist accordingly). I really appreciate pecl4win.php.net -- Edin has done some great work with it -- but there are real advantages to having a known, point-in-time version of a PECL binary synchronized with each PHP release. Troubleshooting can be pretty hard when you can't synchronize your test environment with your user's environment. In addition, forcing the user to go to a different host and navigate a different Web structure to download a DLL that may or may not reflect a current build introduces a significant barrier to adopting the usage of a PECL extension, compared to the side-by-side links of "PHP x.x.x ZIP download" and "Collection of PECL Modules for PHP x.x.x". If the plan is to drop the "Collection of PECL Modules", the documentation team will also need to revise the documentation that talks about how to get binary versions of PECL modules; that's not a major task, most of the content is contained here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.downloads.php -- but there will be a lag before the translations occur and the updated manual is published. Dan On 11/25/05, Romain Bourdon <romain@kaptive.com> wrote:

Wez Furlong

20 years ago
Agreed, the PECL bundle is still very useful to maintain for each release. (as is the debug pack, so that debugging crashes becomes a possibility for releases). --Wez. On 11/26/05, Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com> wrote:

Lukas Smith

20 years ago
Wez Furlong wrote:
> Agreed, the PECL bundle is still very useful to maintain for each release. > (as is the debug pack, so that debugging crashes becomes a possibility > for releases).
Shouldnt we then fast track the binary support in the PEAR installer? It should be enough to commit all your code, wait for the next pecl4win compile step, bundle the binary and release your package .. However there might be a need for multiple binaries for multiple php releases? In that case you have to make a new release when a new binary breaking php release is made. The release should therefore set the proper dependencies to only support php versions upto the next minor version update. regards, Lukas