Re: PDO and pear install

From:	Greg Beaver	Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:26:53 +0000
Subject:	Re: PDO and pear install
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Lester Caine wrote:

Greg Beaver wrote:
I did mean quite seriously this comment, not as a pissy aside: if PEAR is not the right tool for installing pecl packages, it would be very easy to implement another tool as a subpackage of PEAR - I've already
Since I don't use PEAR at all, and I understand PDO will be included in the base PHP distribution as from PHP5.1 - Why do we need PEAR at all to install it?

There are more packages in PECL than PDO. In addition, PDO has a separate release schedule from PHP. In other words, you can upgrade PDO independent of PHP using pear. Greg