In reply to @etu:semi.social
Pol: I have a tip for the usage of the @ofborg bot, you can write @ofborg build attr1 attr2 attr3 ... and build many attributes in a single line ;) You can also use the name @ofborg written as that as afaik Grahamc wanted that at some point :)

In reply to @drupol:matrix.org
Ok good to know ! Is there a huge difference with the way I did it?

In reply to @drupol:matrix.org
ramsey: Now that you're here, I can use you! Do you know anything about this issue? https://github.com/fossar/nix-phps/runs/5358453498?check_suite_focus=true Basically we have issues compiling PHP 7.2.34 on Mac OS. The rest is fine, it's just that PHP version which is failing. Of course, this is not a big deal because PHP 7.2 is not that used anymore, but still, if we could fix this, it would be great. Any clue?

In reply to @drupol:matrix.org
ramsey: I would like to push a change for PHP in Nix. Basically, I would like to replace the src URL in PHP extensions. I would like to change from using the URL provided by PECL to using the Git repository directly. Like that, we slowly move away from PECL and use Git exclusively and also, it can be picked up by the automatic updater (r-ryantm) bot to make sure that packages are always up-to-date. What do you think of that? Is PECL still used that much? Is it a good idea to slowly move away from it? Are there any drawbacks by doing such thing?

Not sure why I’m not getting notifications from Element.

Pol: I’m not sure what you mean by “pecl relies on an external Git repo.” I’m also don’t understand what that has to do with compiling the development branch of PHP.

PHP has multiple development branches, btw. PHP-7.4 has 7.4.x-dev, PHP-8.0 has 8.0.x-dev, and PHP-8.1 has 8.1.x-dev. I think the master branch currently shows 8.2.x-dev.

In reply to @drupol:matrix.org
ramsey: No worries, I closed the issue. Basically, all the PHP extensions in Nix are relying on PECL urls to downloads src. I wanted to change that and use GitHub exclusively so r-ryantm bot could pick up those projects and provide automatic PRs to update them when a tag is published. I closed the issue for 2 reasons. First reason is that I haven't got much support from Nix PHP maintainers, and secondly because it turns out that the bot already update those packages (maybe there was an update in the meantime).
Regarding PHP development branches, this is another thing. I'm trying to build PHP from a dev branch and I will try those branches as well. I'm new to Nix (10 month), so there are things that I do not fully understand yet.