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

At 06:48 17/4/2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:

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.

Well, I'm not sure there's any advantage in doing that, and I can see some disadvantages... At any rate, I'd suggest delaying these discussions until the PEAR mechanism shows up and matures. We can make more informed decisions then. Zeev