[buckminster-dev] Re: Enhancing buckminister for php

["Henrik Lindberg" <glashammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Splendid idea!
We absolute would love to improve the appeal of Buckmisnter to the PHP 
community.
As Thomas wrote, we are far from being PHP experts, and are thrilled if you 
want to help.

Just fire away with questions!

Regards
- henrik

"Atul SIngh" <Atul.Singh@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet 
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> Hi guys
>
> I am thinking about possible enhancements that I can do to improve the
> appeal of buckminister to the php community. To my understanding pear and
> pecl (c extensions) are popular repositories for php extensions. Is there
> any other extension anyone is aware of that I should target ?
>
> pear packages can be easily installed on both windows and linux by using
> pear command line interface (cli). pecl packages can be easily installed 
> on
> linux by using yum or apt-get.
>
> I can use the information in pear and pecl packages to generate a cspec. I 
> I
> am confused whether I can simply invoke the pear/apt-get/yum command from
> inside buckminister to install pear packages. This would be easy and I 
> will
> be relying on a stable well-tested pear cli, however reporting errors
> properly would be tough as paraphrasing the output of pear may be tough.
> Alternatively I can explore the steps that yum/apt-get/pear perform in
> installation and then code them in java.
>
> I would sincerely appreciate any feedback.
>
> Regards
> Atul