Make core bundled extensions available (PDO, curl, intl, etc.)

[asgrim]

Ref: https://bsky.app/profile/nizzness.bsky.social/post/3lbntufzx6c2i

Anyone know if the pie installer has plans to add things like intl, pdo, curl etc...?

Extensions in the core such as PDO, curl, intl currently aren't available in PIE. Discuss how to make them available, since a root composer.json won't really work, as it's essentially one repo with a whole bunch of extensions.

[asgrim]

Couple of suggestions came out of PHPF discussions, I need to investigate viability further;

• git submodules (very invasive on php-src repo, probably not ideal option...)
• sub-tree splits (like Symfony); possible in theory, would need a repo per ext
• may be possible internally in PIE to define a custom repository which pulls from php-src

[derickr]

I don't think having core extensions in PIE makes sense. Most people will install these from distributions, and if they do choose to compile their own PHP, they have all the source to compile these extensions too.

[asgrim]

I must admit, I'm now struggling to understand when you'd pie install intl for example. I'd previously thought this was being requested for things like Dockerfile images, where the PHP install is fairly barebones, but @derickr pointed out to me that usually these images use their own distro packages, (e.g. deb.sury for Ubuntu, docker-php-ext-install, Remi repo, etc.).

If anyone has a specific use-case for this please comment about it, we could still look into it, but I'm inclined to de-prioritise this at the moment if no further feedback is given. 🤔

[macintoshplus]

On Dockerfile, you can use docker-php-ext-install to install a bundled PHP extension not already compiled.

The script docker-php-ext-enable allows to enabling of a pre-compiled and installed extension (bundled or PECL).

IMHO if PIE must know the bundled PHP extension is only to enable it if necessary for all SAPI installed.

Enable an extension is very different from various installations.