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

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 05:03 17/4/2001, Sterling Hughes wrote: > >Ok, let me just see if I understand... > > > >move everything out of the distribution (from mysql popular extensions > >like mysql to hardly used ones like qtdom), and then, come release time, > >package a predefined set of PEAR modules and extensions we want to package > >for PHP4. > > Not really - some of the extensions will remain in PHP. I believe that the > fact that PHP comes bundled with support for some of the most common Web > environment applications is still a serious factor in its success. It did > get into a situation when there are simply too many not-too-mainstream > extensions in there, though, which makes it very difficult to find a stable > point at time to release it. I wouldn't expect MySQL, Oracle or XML > support to be removed from PHP, though. > Right, that's not what I'm saying... I would even suggest that extensions such as the XSLT extension or the PostgreSQL extension should be bundled as well (more, just those two as an example). What I meant was that they were taken out of the PHP distribution until a release cycle when they are again re-bundled for users to have, so: 4.1.1-dev == No extensions are bundled 4.1.1 == Take "stable" versions of predefined extensions out of pear and bundle with the php distro. -Sterling