Re: Stupid question: pear/DB

From:	Greg Beaver	Date:	Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:45:48 +0000
Subject:	Re: Stupid question: pear/DB
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Wez Furlong wrote:

Greg might be able to answer this, --Wez. On Apr 6, 2005 11:37 AM, Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:03:42AM +0200, Martin Kraemer wrote:
A colleague noticed that in an upgrade from 4.3.10 to 4.3.11 the pear/DB extension was no longer installed. The ChangeLog does not mention this. Should it be added to the changelog, and why was it dropped? I didn't completely follow the discussion here...
     
Not only DB, but HTTP, Mail, XML_Parser, Net_Socket, Net_SMTP were all dropped from the tarball. Was this a deliberate change? Will future releases continue to not include these PEAR packages? Yes. To understand the decision, it is best to read the pear-dev and pear-core archives.

Downloading and installing these packages is simple, and keeping them up to date was proving to be impossible. It was introducing potential security risks as well (older versions may not contain critical fixes) Greg