[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/6] php-zmq: new package

[Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>]

On 01/28/2014 07:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Just curious, how many potential PHP packages could we add? The build
> logic for the four packages you submitted looks highly similar, maybe
> it calls a php-package infrastructure?
> 
> The only "difficulty" is that it would have to inherit from
> autotools-package, which itself already inherits from generic-package.
> So it would be the first package infrastructure to inherit from a
> package infra that already inherits from generic-package. I'm sure it
> can work, but it might raise issues with some missing quoting.

Not that many that are useful, many are abandonware, that being the
reason i opted for the autotools infra with the tweak.
PECL packages are compiled (these ones are), PEAR packages are normally
interpreted so it's just a matter of just installing them.
Arguably we could also enable PEAR installs in the target itself but i
don't think it's the spirit of buildroot, like CPAN for perl.
But we don't have any PEAR packages at the moment.
Regards.