Re: Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:37:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL | ||
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Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> Well, it does not consume any resources simply because no one is
> maintaining it ;-). How really different things would be if it were in
> pecl? I mean afaik COM is not enabled by default on win32, so you still
> need to enable it manually. So, the only extra step for people who want
> to use it would be to download it from pecl4win. This updates extensions
> more frequently then we do releases, so it'd actually give people the
> ability to get a more stable version (assuming bug fixes are made) far
> sooner then they'd be able to otherwise.
You know wrongly, COM is enabled and built in static as default.
Removing it would be a very bad idea IMO, and I don't see why unix users
should worry a few extra K in the source tarball.
Edin