Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: CouchDB extension

Hi Johannes,

On 21 Apr 2010, at 12:12 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 11:58 +0200, Andrew Colin Kissa wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 
>> Greetings from South Africa, I am Andrew, I have written a PHP extension that wraps the CouchDB API
>> 
>> http://www.topdog.za.net/php_couchdb_extension
> 
> My tar complained while checking the download file:
>        This does not look like a tar archive
>        Skipping to next header
>        Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Strange, i can extract both on mac os x and linux but let me double check.

> 
> I wonder what the benefit over a PHP implementation is. We have ways to
> do the needed http calls from PHP and en-/decode json so the penalty by
> plain PHP shouldn't bee tooo big whereas installation/maintenance

My understanding was doing it in C would provide better performance although
i have not actually bench marked it

> simplifies compared to an extension.See PHPillow for instance
> http://arbitracker.org/phpillow.html
> 
> What license is your extension using?

It is under the PHP license 

> 
> johannes
> 
> 
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