Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > We will need it: > > - by the time of PHP 6 > > I think this problem should be fixed not by killing PEAR and converting it to > PHP extensions but by fixing PHP 6 and enabling PEAR to work. Let me agree with Greg here. We can not go back to the PHP 4.x way of bundling PEAR. It's a PITA for both the PEAR people and the RM. PHP 5 uses the phar, which works brilliantly. So the fix here is to make something *like* phar work with PHP 6 as well. If it was to be based on streams (which I think it can only be), then we *need* some way of marking this new user stream as being local in order for require and include to work on those. Making a hack in PHP to allow "phar://" streams to work is a bad idea, a C-extension can easily work here. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org