Ability to support external php libs

[azr]

Hi there,

I like this buildpack, but I also'd like to use libpuzzle or phash (and its php binding) and I'm pretty sure that everyone who's using this buidlpack doesn't need those.
And I don't want to fork this buildpack too.

Would it be complicated to fetch libraries from third party s3 buckets or whatever else url ?
Would I need to recompile php ?
Is it even possible ?

[CHH]

Hi @Azer-!

It wouldn't be really complicated to use libs from other S3 buckets. The extension binary has to match the PHP series though, so you need a build for each series like 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (and 5.6). Technically speaking: you need a binary for each version of PHP's extension API. But it doesn't matter if the extension is compiled with 5.3.21 and you use it with 5.3.23 or 5.3.0.