Re: Splitting the subject: the PECL/PHP relationship

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Steph Fox wrote: > Everything else - the fashionistas (JSON, xmlreader/writer) and the downright > useful for some but not all (fileinfo, json, com_dotnet, posix) and the quirky > stuff (pretty much anything Sara came up with) - should be in PECL. I see another issue after reading this, and that is that it makes it much harder for users to depend on specific extensions just being always available by default. It's important for application distributers to have this core set of extensions to rely on. It's annoying enough that some distributions (gentoo, freebsd) already use --disable-all and their users then bugging us (or me) with "you should check that SPL is enabled in your code". regards, Derick