Re: Re: com php-src: Revert "Disable PEAR by default": configure.in

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: > Am 26.01.2015 um 18:03 schrieb Ferenc Kovacs: > > imo we can't ship php without a tool to install additional pecl > > extensions. > > I disagree and would argue that most people do not want to build > extensions themselves and instead prefer binary packages provided by > their OS distribution. > > But even if people are comfortable with using a tools such as pickle > to download, compile, install, manage, etc. extensions for the PHP > interpreter I don't think it is a good idea to ship it with PHP. > It's two different things, language runtime and extension manager, > that server two different purposes and thus should be kept separate. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > you are right, yet this is how php was distributed for years, so changing it without providing a replacement/upgrade path is not the best course of action. probably removing pecl has a much smaller impact (mostly distro people, extension developers and power users) but it is still worth thinking about them. so to repeat myself: this would need an rfc with it's own discussion and votes to allow us to take the best course of action. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu