Re: Splitting the subject: the PECL/PHP relationship

On Feb 6, 2008 11:12 AM, Marco <markright@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well - that can't be entirely true or there'd be next to no MySQL support > > out there! > > > I knew that would come back and bite me on the ass as soon as I posted! :-) > > MySQL support is one of the noteable exceptions as its considered core to > web-hosts (In their eyes PHP and MySQL are one) other things are totally > different. > > I just think we make it needlessly difficult for people > > (including/especially hosts) to find their way around PECL at present. > > Maybe > > a better way to go would be to start distributing an 'A1 pack' (there has > > to > > be a better name) _before_ moving anything more out to it from the core > > distribution. At least that way there'd be the possibility of moving > > things > > out of core - at present if you do that you're just consigning extensions > > to > > oblivion. > > > I think one of the reasons hosts don't like / use PECL is trust, The main reason (from my experiences) for the ISP is lazynes. They don't care about what the users may need or not but simply run configure, make make install, or use the <xyz> distribtutions default package to run common applications like phpmyadmin or wordpress. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org