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1 Mar 2022
Pol	PR ready for merging ! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158098	16:27:48
Pol	And we got a new PHP contributor today : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/162376	16:28:24
2 Mar 2022
Pol	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?	08:15:41
Pol	* 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?	08:36:33
3 Mar 2022
@ramsey:matrix.org	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? PECL is still the primary way to distribute PHP extensions, and I’ve not heard anything about it going away anytime soon. There is a separate project called “pickle” that can take the place of PECL, though. I think whether the PHP project retires PECL depends on having someone come along who can propose a process for moving to something else and dedicate time and energy to making it happen.	02:13:41
@ramsey:matrix.org	https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/pickle	02:14:26
Pol	But pecl relies on an external Git repo, right? It does not provide its own.	06:17:45
Pol	I'm trying to add a feature to `generic.nix` so we will be able to compile the development branch of PHP. I did this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/compare/master...drupol:feat/let-php-compile-master-branch and it seems to work locally. It's building the branch `master` right now. But I'm wondering if this is the best way to do that. I see in the bottom of the file that there is a way to override some attributes, maybe I should do that. WDYT ?	17:20:45
Pol	Maybe I can do that with `overrideAttrs` but I'm having hard time finding how to use it.	17:27:03
Pol	I think I have it:	17:30:28
Pol	Download image.png	17:30:30
Pol	Nope.	17:32:05
4 Mar 2022
Pol	Right, I closed this issue https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158098 as we were not aligned on how it should be done.	15:05:41
5 Mar 2022
@ramsey:matrix.org	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.	21:28:04
Pol	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.	21:45:08
8 Mar 2022
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10 Mar 2022
etu	The majority of extensions are upstream extensions and built from the same source as the php distribution though :)	07:11:57
12 Mar 2022
@ramsey:matrix.org	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. I'm newer to Nix (< 1 month), so you know a lot more about it than I do. 😉	20:00:13

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