Re: enabling everything by default

From:	Antony Dovgal	Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:04:43 +0000
Subject:	Re: enabling everything by default
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On 12.08.2008 19:49, Steph Fox wrote:

Sorry - it was assigned to you, so I assumed you were aware it was actually a Phar bug. My bad, I didn't reflect on just how many bugs are assigned to you.

I assigned it to me in order to keep track of it.

We've had two alphas and a beta release between March and now, and another beta release is planned in PECL shortly. (In fact I had hoped it would be this week, since Greg's now able to communicate again.) I think 5 months is a reasonable length of time for an extension to be in alpha-beta, personally.

You can't call it alpha, continue active development for two months and then call it stable, that's pointless. The diff since March is more than 1Mb, it's a different extension already.

At this moment I don't see any reasons to call ext/phar "stable", therefore it should not be enabled by default.
PHP_5_3 is also not called "stable" at this point. It'd be a different matter if it were.

Correct. But they don't install it by default on all computers. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal