Re: Moving to PECL

I agree with Edin here. We need to make sure the Windows builds are not too far behind the *nix releases. In other words we need to make sure everyting is in place to build and release on Win32 before we move all extensions. - Frank > On 7 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > So now that the PEAR framework for bundling extensions is in place, I > > figured I'd start a thread about moving all extensions to PECL, and then > > selectively bundling them from PECL (perhaps maintaining physical > > aliases as well.) > > -1 > I'm strongly against this move. First of all PEAR framework for handling > extensions is nowhere near complete. It has no support for Windows. It has > no notion of what version of PECL package can be built with what version > of PHP. It requires latest and the greatest GNU tools installed on the > system which is rarely true for some commercial Unixes. > > If we are going to bundle most of those extensions anyway, removing them > to PECL would directly reduce the quality of the release as most of them > will receive very little testing. > > I understand the wish to make the release process more easy, but I'm > afraid that this proposal will achieve exactly to opposite effect. It will > certainly make maintenance of the Windows binary releases much more > difficult. > > Edin > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >