Can you distill the problem to one paragraph or less? I'm having a
hard time figuring out what you're getting at.
OK, I'll work on it.
Initial/primary argument here: under Windows, to load one extension that I would have had as an integral part of 5.0.*, I now need to install two extensions via php.ini, and it's not evident (without reading the manual - and why would you, to install a simple upgrade?) that there's been any change.
I realize this is not an issue for the cognescenti, but I think it might be a problem for people trying to figure stuff out - and I'd also submit the vague idea that a lot of the people trying to figure stuff out might be win32 users.
Secondary argument is as a result of your responses to my initial bleh:
You need to decide whether PECL is intended as a laboratory with stable releases that become part of the PHP distro, or an integral part of PHP at all developmental stages.
- Steph
I don't see a problem with the current status of the PHP win32 build
that can't be resolved by loading the extensions that you want to use
in php.ini.
--Wez.