Re: Is a PECL a black whole?

> It took me a while to find an explanation of what a PECL is. I kept reading > comments about things being moved to a PECL but I saw nothing about what is > in a PECL or how to get anything out of a (the?) PECL. As far as I knew, > there is a danger of all of PHP being in a PECL. > > I could not (and cannot) find an explanation of a PECL when I start by going > to the main php.net page and looking for one. So I searched for "PECL" and > got a few results; one result is for vpopmail: Welcome to the club. I sent a similar email about this a few days ago and nobody replied. I was looking for documentation on the fileinfo PECL module which is recommended instead of mime_content_type, simple stuff like what arguments does it take etc. There is also a lack of documentation for how to install and run and USE PECL modules which is worrying especially if as you say a lot of PHP is going down the PECL path. To me PECL looks like a major own goal. Cue the flames for this being a PHP list and not a PECL list. TTFN Dave php/2004-09-03.tx socalsam@bigfoot.com php-general +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Restall, IIRC Limited, PO Box 46, Skelton, Cleveland, TS12 2GT. | | Tel. 0845 10 80 151 Mob. +44 (0) 7973 831245 Int. +44 (0) 1287 653003 | | email : dave@iirc.net dave@restall.net Web : http://www.iirc.net | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. | | -- Jean Anouilh | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+