Re: Re: Too many extensions bundled with the Windows Installer?

Hi, On 7/2/07, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:

On 03.07.2007 00:50, John Mertic wrote:

If an author would like his extension in the Windows installer then they could just ask, would prevent unmaintained and unstable extensions included in the build.

But we are shipping them currently in the zip build ( all I'm doing is repackaging php-5.2.x-win32.zip and pecl-5.2.x-win32.zip ) The zip build is php-5.2.x-win32.zip, you merge it with the PECL package (pecl-5.2.x-win32.zip), which I believe is supposed to be completely separate thing and that causes the mess.

It's separate, but there is nothing telling the end user that some extensions ( such as APC, memcache, etc ) are good to use while others aren't.

so I think the issue would be better dealt with at the PECL level. Well. no doubt it should be dealt on the PECL level (i.e. maintainers should start maintaining their extensions etc.), but that's a bit unrealistic..

That's why I think that have the same sort of tagging system PEAR uses with stable, beta, alpha would help out here tremendously, but like you said that's a topic for another thread....

Could the features potentially be grouped into two trees? Core and added functionality that can come from PECL?

Originally, I was thinking the same thing, but the consensus was to make it the way it is currently. I like the two tree approach myself and switch to that if that what everyone wants to do. But I do remember the disention is that it seemed to confusing; perhaps splitting them up based upon stability instead? Not sure I get you correctly (most probably not), but we do have two separate .zip packages for Win32 and I don't remember any complaints about it. To my personal understanding, the point of this thread is: "please do not merge PECL package into the CORE". Just leave it as is, it's separate package and it's not supposed to be included into the official distro (most of those packages should not be built & distributed at all, but that's a topic for another discussion).

Then let's go with putting the PECL packages in the installer, but a separate menu like you mentioned. Like I said I liked that idea from the start, but I remember people thought it was too confusing for some reason. From my ( and your ) vantage point it makes it much clearer. -- -- John Mertic "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you jmertic@gmail.com understand it better, but the frog dies in the process." -Mark Twain