feat: add PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) support#16860
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- composer.json: add type php-ext, php-ext metadata block with extension-name and build-path, remove hardcoded version - package.xml: align PHP minimum to 8.1.0, remove upper bound cap - Add .github/workflows/release-windows.yml for building and publishing Windows DLLs to GitHub Releases on release.published - main.yml: add build_freshness job to detect generated-build drift, add pie_smoke_test job to validate PIE source builds - README.md: add PIE and PECL install instructions Closes #16832
…alcon Instead of running 'pie build phalcon/cphalcon' which fetches from Packagist (where the old metadata without type:php-ext still lives), validate the PIE metadata from local composer.json and build the extension from build/phalcon/ — the exact path PIE will use via the build-path directive.
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Add PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) support
Closes #16832
This PR adds PIE support to
phalcon/cphalcon, making the extension installable viapie install phalcon/cphalconon Linux/macOS (source build) and Windows (pre-built DLLs from GitHub Releases).Changes
1.
composer.json— PIE metadata"type": "php-ext"so PIE recognizes this as an extension package"php-ext"block withextension-name: "phalcon"andbuild-path: "build/phalcon"(required because the Composer package namephalcon/cphalcondoesn't match the extension namephalcon, and the build root is not the repo root)"version": "5.10.0"— Git tags will drive versions on Packagist2.
package.xml— PHP version alignment<min>8.0.0</min>→<min>8.1.0</min>to align withcomposer.jsonand CI matrix<max>8.5.99</max>to keep upper bound open-ended — no metadata release needed for new PHP minorspackage.xmlis kept for PECL coexistence during transition3.
.github/workflows/release-windows.yml— Windows DLLs for PIErelease.publishedphp/setup-php-sdkphp_phalcon.dll+LICENSE.txt) to the GitHub Release4.
.github/workflows/main.yml— CI guardrailsbuild_freshnessjob: regeneratesbuild/phalconfrom Zephir sources and assertsgit diff --exit-code— catches generated-build drift that would break PIE source installspie_smoke_testjob: runspie build phalcon/cphalconfrom the local checkout on PHP 8.1 and 8.4 to validate PIE compatibility end-to-end5.
README.md— install docsPost-merge ops (not in this PR)
php/pieto move Phalcon to "Supported" in their migration tracker