Hello,

Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>  
>  At 11:26 PM 11/21/01 -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:
>  >Does that mean that PHP-GTK extension will be integrated in PHP
>  >repository? It will save a lot of people the headache of building it.
>  >Also it would make it definetly more popular, because Linux distributors
>  >like SuSE distribute many PHP modules with the their PHP base
>  >distribution, so the users of such distributions would not even have to
>  >go through the pain of building PHP-GTK. That would be a good start for
>  >starting distributing PHP-GTK applications and components.
>  
>  There are several reasons for not putting PHP-GTK into PHP ext/ directory.
>  
>  1. It is just too extensive. Not only does it have its own loadable
>  extensions, but also its own documentation and web modules.

And?

 
>  2. It is licensed under LGPL.

And?


>  3. It is on a completely different release cycle from PHP. Actually, most
>  of the extensions in ext/ directory will be moved out to PECL/PEAR soon.

But PEAR is inside PHP 4 module!


 
>  I don't see why SuSE and other distributors cannot distribute PHP-GTK just
>  like any other package. I hope that the building issues will be resolved
>  now that 4.1.0 release is imminent and there will be something stable to
>  build against.

Ask them. The fact is they only distribute modules that are part of PHP.

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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