Re: Are PECL modules preferable?

Le 21/03/2020 à 23:52, Mike Schinkel a écrit : >> On Mar 21, 2020, at 5:59 PM, tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> wrote: >> FROM: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] is_literal() >> >> And if it can be implemented as a PECL module, that would be more preferable to me than a >> core module of php. >> If it was in core, having to support that feature may limit optimizations or >> implementation changes that could be done in the future. > > Just wanted to address this comment which was made on another thread (I did not want to hijack > that thread.) > > A large number of PHP users have no control over the platform they run on, so the option to use > PECL modules is a non-starter for them. Sorry, but PECL is the usual way for new extension - add to pecl - people start using it - if success add to php-src And later - move to pecl extensions removed from php-src Having new extension (outside of language feature) directly added to php-src is IMHO a terrible way. Having "dead" extensions in php-src is a real problem (the ones nobody take care of anymore, only adapted for new version) But I'm probably the only one who think much more extensions should be removed from php-src and maintained outside, in pecl. Remi