Re: [PHP4BETA] difference of pecl and pear?

Stig Bakken wrote: > The "pecl" dir is obsolete. This was the original name for what is now > known as "pear", but it was abandoned because it supposedly meant several > nasty things in German. :-) hmm, ok - even though i (despite being nativly speaking german) have no clue what pecl could mean. > If you always run cvs update with the -P option, empty dirs will be > removed (try "cvs update -d -P" in ~/.cvsrc). Yes, i always run "cvs update -d -P", but it did not clean the pecl directory, and thus did not delete it - strange. Well, thanks though. On the other hand: the pecl directory seems to contain more code - DB abstraction stuff - a mysql layer in addition to the odbc layer. How experimental is it? And: The NEWS file is talking about "use" support, but i cant use "use" with the current cvs Thanks again Boris