Re: about PECL and PHP 5.1

Agreed, the PECL bundle is still very useful to maintain for each release. (as is the debug pack, so that debugging crashes becomes a possibility for releases). --Wez. On 11/26/05, Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm. > > Is this expected to be a long-term change to the way we're making the > binary version of PECL modules available for a given PHP release? Or > did we just miss one part of the release process for 5.1.0? (I've > added a comment to http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist > accordingly). > > I really appreciate pecl4win.php.net -- Edin has done some great work > with it -- but there are real advantages to having a known, > point-in-time version of a PECL binary synchronized with each PHP > release. Troubleshooting can be pretty hard when you can't synchronize > your test environment with your user's environment. > > In addition, forcing the user to go to a different host and navigate a > different Web structure to download a DLL that may or may not reflect > a current build introduces a significant barrier to adopting the usage > of a PECL extension, compared to the side-by-side links of "PHP x.x.x > ZIP download" and "Collection of PECL Modules for PHP x.x.x". > > If the plan is to drop the "Collection of PECL Modules", the > documentation team will also need to revise the documentation that > talks about how to get binary versions of PECL modules; that's not a > major task, most of the content is contained here: > http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.downloads.php -- but > there > will be a lag before the translations occur and the updated manual is > published. > > Dan > > On 11/25/05, Romain Bourdon <romain@kaptive.com> wrote: > > Ilia Alshanetsky a écrit : > > > Romain, > > > > > > You can find the 5.1 win32 binaries for most pecl extensions at: > > > http://pecl4win.php.net > > > > > > Ilia > > > > Thanks, i'll have a look there. > > > > Romain > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >