<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Packaging and distribution</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="internals2.pdo.testing.html">Testing</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="internals2.pdo.pdo-dbh-t.html">pdo_dbh_t definition</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="internals2.pdo.html">PDO Driver How-To</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="internals2.pdo.packaging" class="sect1"> <h2 class="title">Packaging and distribution</h2> <div class="sect2" id="internals2.pdo.packaging.creating"> <h3 class="title">Creating a package</h3> <p class="para"> PDO drivers are released via PECL; all the usual rules for PECL extensions apply. Packaging is accomplished by creating a valid <var class="filename">package.xml</var> file and then running: </p> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> $ pecl package </pre></div> </div> <p class="para"> This will create a tarball named <var class="filename">PDO_SKEL-X.Y.Z.tgz</var>. </p> <p class="para"> Before releasing the package, you should test that it builds correctly; if you've made a mistake in your <var class="filename">config.m4</var> or <var class="filename">package.xml</var> files, the package may not function correctly. You can test the build, without installing anything, using the following invocation: </p> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> $ pecl build package.xml </pre></div> </div> <p class="para"> Once this is proven to work, you can test installation: </p> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> $ pecl package $ sudo pecl install PDO_SKEL-X.Y.X.tgz </pre></div> </div> <p class="para"> Full details about <var class="filename">package.xml</var> can be found in the PEAR Programmer's documentation (<a href="http://pear.php.net/manual/" class="link external">» http://pear.php.net/manual/</a>). </p> </div> <div class="sect2" id="internals2.pdo.packaging.creating.releasing"> <h3 class="title">Releasing the package</h3> <p class="para"> A PDO driver is released via the PHP Extension Community Library (PECL). Information about PECL can be found at <a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» http://pecl.php.net/</a>. </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="internals2.pdo.testing.html">Testing</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="internals2.pdo.pdo-dbh-t.html">pdo_dbh_t definition</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="internals2.pdo.html">PDO Driver How-To</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
