Re: more candidates for PECL

On 4/25/06, Steph Fox <steph@zend.com> wrote: > Since when have existing books been a reason not to change something? Given the lack of documentation on this topic and the fact that ext_skel and ext/skeleton are pretty much just plain text, I think it's a pretty damned good reason. > > I can't see any negative points to keeping ext/skeleton in the tree. > > I can't see any positive ones :) That's because you don't use it. I use ext_skel a lot. I'm fairly sure that most extension authors also start with ext_skel. > the view that the template is essentially part of PHP itself? yes. > It'd be good to have Hartmut's view on that, since he wrote both those > systems. I suspect that Hartmut will want to keep at least one of them around in the core. > .. the least being that it would make it a one-step process to install a PDO > driver. Is there any reason it isn't? You just turn it on in the php.ini file (we ship the DLLs). That's "one-step", right? It's a gazillion times easier than unix. --Wez.