Re: Bundling "modern" extensions

Am 05.06.2011 13:40, schrieb Pierre Joye: > hi, > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote: >> Am 05.06.2011 12:57, schrieb Pierre Joye: >> >>> The last point is that pecl allows a much more flexible release >>> management than the core will even do. >> >> in theory >> >>> So instead of doing some marketing/communication actions by bundling some >>> known extensions, we should better promote pecl better. >> >> not promote - MAINTAIN it better! > > Being in core is not a sign of good maintenance. There are so many > poorly maintained part in core as well. but they are running through some autotests a fucking PECL extension which is not updated for years and where bugreports are ignored is out of reach even for only smallest fixes > Also some exts are simply not used anymore or do not have active > developers but they compile with recent versions and if not the build will stop and someone fix it > If you use some of them, then try to contribute and take > the hand over them (you being anyone reading this mail, not you > alone:) sorry, as php-user i can not take my hand over i can only realize that devleop anything depending on PECL is a dangerous game if it is not one time payed throw away-code and will end on the road to hell for big and over years maintained projects normally every maintainer which will not rebuild his package for every php-release and fix compile warnings from time to time should be burned down (including php-users not using E_ALL | E_STRICT on developemnt machines and fix warnings/notices)

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