Re: Are PECL modules preferable?

> On Mar 23, 2020, at 12:34, Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> wrote: > > Rowan, > > Based on your responses now I am not at all sure what you were driving at. > > I think you are making detail points because of nuances of PECL and bundled vs. unbundled etc, > while I was trying to make a higher level case. > > So let me restate the thesis: > > "When discussing a potential new feature suggesting that it be implemented in a way that > it might not actually be available (via PECL, unbundled, disabled, whatever) is not a viable > alternative for many PHP developers unless integral to the feature is a need to make it optional.” I think Rowan is making the point that *most* of the features found in the core PHP distribution are *optional*. Distributions and hosts are choosing to enable them. There are very few things in the core distribution that cannot be disabled at build time. I’ve run into this numerous times in my userland OSS libraries. It came up recently with the ctype functions. Someone’s host had these disabled, for whatever reason, so I had to use a polyfill library to provide the functionality, for those cases. Cheers, Ben

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