Re: extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop

Hi,

Can be moved PECL - interbase - fpdf - fbsql - sybase and sybase_ct

Sybase can be moved, it is unmaintained. I would've done this long ago if I could, karma-wise. Sybase_ct works perfectly for us at 1&1 and despite feature requests that exist and me not having put big efforts into it over the past years it serves millions of requests a day without problems. The next big step would be to add all the if (unicode)-stuff needed for PHP6 and/or to port it to a PDO driver, which I frankly don't have time to do. If an extension is moved to PECL, it is a bit more of a hassle to install it: Windows: instead of enabling it in php.ini you need to download the dll (not sure who builds that? Is it done automatically?) / Un*x: Get a .tar.gz, unpack, phpize, configure and make (last time I tried that didn't work for me, must've been some wrong auto-whatever). Plus I'm not sure how developing works, would you mess up your PHP checkout tree by copying the pecl/ext/XXX to php-src/ext/XXX and the running all these magic autotools? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I guess that's what people on both sides - extension developers and PHP users - are afraid of when you announce PECL-moves, right? Before you say "PECL is not siberia" think about the following: If PECL moves wouldn't hurt the user experience for any partys involved, why would any extension live in php-src/ext/? - Timm