PECL Development Environment and Installation Support

Hello, Tried contacting Mr Pierre over chat, but hard luck. I have been going through the documentation and some email conversation archives and saw that pecl4win might not come up again. Sad. I had three pointers to check with you. ** Here is a quick question? Is PHP 5.x compatible across, for VC9 or VC6 ( VC9 backward compatibility for VC6 compiled files); when it comes to usage of PECL extensions for Windows compilation? I presume this is going to be an eternal issue, if there is no backward compatibility. Especially when the coding will move to VC2010 or higher someday. ** The museum link has list of compiled PECL .dlls (almost all, when a systematic check of all *.zip files were made). Possibly VC6. To put a direct question, will the PHP 5.3.x/5.4.x VC9 compilation allow functioning of PECLs 5.2.6 VC6 compiled (and vc6/vc9 distribut-able installed accordingly), without crash downs or errors? Not using PHP VC9 but would like to know before upgrading to VC9. ** Here is a quick suggestion. Recommend updating links/ files or rather have a common permanent Windows development link and needed library repository/ svn link, whatever is needed, along with detailed installation process. Must say that the installation documentation for Windows needs some serious detailed visuals or rather "Better Explanation" and "Updated LINKs of development libraries" that have upgraded and where the main libraries websites are already using the VC2010v, like ICU. It was just a mess getting through. PECL or PHP Development documentation or its initiation is not detailed. Needs one I guess. TnR, Ganesh Bhat