Re: PECL Radius Extension PHP8+ and Maintainership

Christian McDonald in php.pecl.dev (Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:45:00 -0400):
>2) What was the rationale behind carrying a local copy of
>libradius(3)? I see there are some PHP-specific modifications related
>to RNG. Is there something I'm missing here that would specifically
>require this? The libradius code was pulled from FreeBSD
>and modified. My target platform is FreeBSD so naturally I gravitate
>to just linking against libradius(3) provided by the host
>system. Having a local copy would obviously solve the problem of
>supporting other *nix and windows platforms.

My guess: exactly that is the rationale.
https://github.com/LawnGnome/php-radius/pull/6 compiles and loads just
fine on Windows even for PHP 8.2.0 beta 2, without additional
dependencies.
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Jan