Re: cvs: php-src /ext/mcve mcve.c php_mcve.h

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:34:44 -0400 Brad House <bradmssw@php.net> wrote: > Perhaps. There was discussion once upon a time along those lines, > but nothing else came of it. I'd have to know what it entails, > and if it would prohibit the extension from being distributed > with the main PHP codebase. AFAIK the general plan is to move almost all extensions to PECL (and we're working on it, take a look on how many extensions were moved there in 5.0 and 5.1), so users would be able to get & install only extensions they really need. Personally I don't think that ext/mcve is used by large number of users (I haven't ever heard of someone using it) and IMO that's a perfect reason to move it from the core to PECL. I can be wrong, though. There are also several rather important reasons to do so: 1) you wouldn't depend on PHP release cycles. 2) you would be able to use PECL infrastructure to build Win32 *.dll's 3) Others. All this doesn't mean that users will not be able to install/use the extension or even have some problems with it. Extensions from PECL can be installed with this command: # pear install extname See details here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.php > Forgive my ignorance, but I have > not even looked into what PECL really is. Well, I'd recommend to take a look on it, since you're the maintainer of an extension.. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal