Re: PHP 4.3 and PHP 5

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 derick@php.net wrote: > > >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? :) No, that's not what I meant. I meant to say that changes in the API would be discovered much earlier because some ppl just compile PHP a lot and have a lot of extensions enabled. > > >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. Yes, that might be a good idea. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------