Allow loading extensions by name

> Hello, > > 2016-01-28 21:20 GMT+01:00 François Laupretre <francois@php.net>: > >> Hi, >> >> Can you please give your thoughts about a PR I just created : >> >> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1741 >> >> Loading extensions by name (instead of file name) provides a portable way >> of specifying extensions in an INI file. Example : >> >> extension=bz2 >> zend_extension=xdebug >> >> This will be converted to the right file name, depending on the platform. >> Of course, current configurations using filenames remain supported (no BC >> break), but the recommended way of specifying additional extensions in an >> INI file becomes 'by name' (See example php.ini files). >> >> If I get positive returns, I'll write an RFC targeting 7.1. >> >> Regards >> >> François >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > i generally like it. Small improvement and optional. > > In your PR you wrote >> A typical example is the coexistence of a Windows development environment > and a Linux production. In such cases, it is impossible to write a single > configuration file that will work in both environments, forcing developers > to manually maintain two separate versions of the file. > > That will also not work (in some cases) with this change either. > > Some other settings can also be OS dependent > - error_log > - mail.log, SMTP, sendmail_path > - some session settings > - some path settings > -... > > > I think 100% portability will not be achieved very soon