Re: [PHP4BETA] difference of pecl and pear?

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Boris Erdmann wrote: | 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 The "pecl" dir is obsolete.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. Sascha is my source on this, I have no clue apart from that. :-) | > 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. That happens if you have a Makefile or something in there generated by an old configure (cvs won't remove the generated files). | 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 You mean the "pear" directory? The DB abstraction stuff is not very experimental, but it is still being implemented. The MySQL layer is usable now, I haven't had a chance to work on the other layers yet because I only have MySQL on my laptop. - Stig