Re: Is a PECL a black whole?

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:29, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: > > 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. This is a "general" PHP list. That means everything and anything PHP. Since PECL is part of PHP I don't think flames would be in order :) And at the very least it's not another off topic MySQL, IIS, or Apache thread *grin*. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'