Re: PHP 4.3 and PHP 5

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Almost all extention should/will be moved to PECL, since > there is no point manging module under php4 source tree > that aren't strictly required for building PHP. > > Standard module should be in php4 source tree, but all other > modules that can be moved including session/xml/mbstring/etc > should be moved to PECL. I would not agree with this, by moving extensions to PECL you get the problem that they may not compile with the current (CVS) PHP tree. Managing compability would be worse. I don't think that would be a problem for for example the mysql extension, because it is maintained wel, but for things where the extension is not maintained, it would get obsolete very quickly. I would also like to stress that I don't like moving core extensions (which are used a lot) to PECL. IMO it has no use to move the MySQL/XML/Session extensions there, they are clearly a part of the 'core' in PHP. Derick --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I help you? http://www.derickrethans.nl/link.php?url=giftlist Frequent ranting: http://www.derickrethans.nl/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - derick@php.net All your branches are belong to me! SRM: Script Running Machine - www.vl-srm.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------