Re: PHP 4.3 and PHP 5

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 derick@php.net wrote: >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. You mean there aren't such extension in the CVS right now? :) >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. But we can always do the same 'trick' as we do with Zend and TSRM.. :) ie. those extensions which are 'coreish' and should be added in every release are checked out with the php5 CVS module. --Jani