Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote: > The business of moving extensions to PEAR appeals to me as I think that PHP > currently feels too big - especially from the point of view of the potential > new user with a dial up connection, who may well look elsewhere for > something smaller. However, I think the idea of moving some extensions to > PEAR and leaving others alone will produce a situation where 'knowing' where > to find an extension is not intuitive. > Well, I don't know how valid that argument (dialup) really is. I currently use a dial up connection (56k) and I'm fine with php (it takes at most 20 minutes to download and I can do other things while php is downloading). > The two solutions to this which spring to mind are: > > ALL extensions are in PEAR, and a download tool allows easy selection of > extensions, perhaps with a 'most common options' button to include the > favourite extensions. > I think this would be a unfavorable solution, since one of PHP's main advantages to new users is they don't have to go looking somewhere else for all of their extensions. Offering a full download and a selector tool might be a nice option though. > As above except that the most common extensions are somehow promoted fom > being extensions into the core of PHP. > I don't see the point of this. That's simply a move from ext/extname to ext/standard/extname ... -Sterling