Re: Re: Moving extensions to PECL

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 08:12:25PM -0000, James Moore wrote: > The QA Teams job needs to be made as easy as possible, at the moment those > people still working activly on QA a lot have a very hard time balancing > time between testing for new bugs, localising and fixing bugs as well as > making sure releases are up to scratch and new bugs arnt introduced. > Anything to make their job easier is a big plus. right. i think that moving extensions out of the core will make things easier on both ends -- new releases of the core can go out without having to wait on lesser-used extensions to be tested (or go out with buggy lesser-used extensions), and new releases of those extensions can be made on their own schedule. someone fixed a major bug in pear/PECL/cybermut? run the regression tests and do a release. no more waiting three months for a release of the core to be put together. look at the current situation with the mnogosearch extension -- 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 don't support the latest mnogosearch api. it will probably be at least three months before a distribution of php that does is released. if mnogosearch were a part of PECL, a new version could be released and usable with the existing core distribution whenever its developers thought it was ready. jim