Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/ircg README.txt

At 23:29 20-08-01, Sterling Hughes wrote:

        I see no reason to put them in at the language level -- PEAR seems a
        suitable place for the extensions (once pear is setup).  They're not
        really used that commonly (from what I can see).  Also, these
        extensions are not the only way to process payments with PHP, plenty
        of sites do it different ways (I processed payments with PHP before
        these extensions existed).

I think these discussions are kind of idle until the PEAR framework is ready. The fact PHP comes with a rich variety of extensions is, in my opinion, one of the key reasons to its success. It doesn't mean that this system cannot be redesigned in a way in which the extensions would ship separately, but we have to make sure it will not make installing extensions any more complicated or annoying than it is today. Zeev