Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

I’ve just released the first version of php-toolkit. This will be our collection of useful scripts for managing an install of PHP on Gentoo.

At the moment, the toolkit consists of php-select - a script which allows you to manage the symlinks and APACHE_OPTS settings. The eclasses in the overlay now use php-select instead of eselect to automatically create symlinks when dev-lang/php is installed.

We’ll be adding more scripts to php-toolkit at some point. One script will be php-cleaner, which will automatically recompile any PHP extensions that need rebuilding. I know that Luca is planning to add a script to switch PHP extensions on and off. Neither of these is likely to happen before we mark dev-lang/php stable.

Please test the php-toolkit, and let me know of any bugs or other problems.