Re: Is a PECL a black whole?

* Thus wrote Sam Hobbs: > "Curt Zirzow" <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote in message > news:20040903151031.GI25291@bagend.shire... > >* Thus wrote Sam Hobbs: > >> 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. > > > > There is documentation on the way for what to do with these PECL > > extension on how to install and upgrade them. > > > Perhaps you did not read everything I said, since there is more to what I > said than what you quoted, and in the other part of what I said, I did say > there is documentation as you say. Is that more or less muddy? I quoted the part of which i was responding to, to let you know that documentation is being worked on to clearify your questions. > > So in other words, yes, there is documentation. The point I was making is > that the documentation is not as easy to find as it could be. So the issue > is not about use of PECL as much as it is use of the PHP documentation to > find the PECL (documentation). Perhaps my little comment really didn't explain exactly what I meant. pecl.php.net is more geared for developers that wish to contribute to writing extensions. The documentation that is being worked on will explain what pecl is, how to install a pecl extension and of course the procedures to upgrade them. Which will be geared more towards the end user of the PECL extension vs the developer. Curt -- The above comments may offend you. flame at will.