What does PEAR's stability on windows 32 systems have anything to do
with it? This is an internal change. Meaning, as an end-user, you
won't see any change. The separation to PECL is purely a release
management thing.
The move to PECL has been agreed upon multiple times. We can't have the
release manager coordinating all these different extensions at release
time. Therefore, we decide which extensions to bundle (all of current
cvs + a few PECL extensions, for example), and the release manager
bundles the last stable release. You also avoid the problem where
people can't commit alpha features to their extension, for fear a
release might be made of them (or a release is made of these alpha
features, which has happened more than once).
Win32 is a non-issue. We're not talking about debundling anything from
a release at this point. As for QA, I suggest you look at the archives,
its been discussed multiple times (or at least, I've had this
conversation multiple times. :)
-Sterling
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 19:22, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> On 7 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > So now that the PEAR framework for bundling extensions is in place, I
> > figured I'd start a thread about moving all extensions to PECL, and then
> > selectively bundling them from PECL (perhaps maintaining physical
> > aliases as well.)
>
> -1
> I'm strongly against this move. First of all PEAR framework for handling
> extensions is nowhere near complete. It has no support for Windows. It has
> no notion of what version of PECL package can be built with what version
> of PHP. It requires latest and the greatest GNU tools installed on the
> system which is rarely true for some commercial Unixes.
>
> If we are going to bundle most of those extensions anyway, removing them
> to PECL would directly reduce the quality of the release as most of them
> will receive very little testing.
>
> I understand the wish to make the release process more easy, but I'm
> afraid that this proposal will achieve exactly to opposite effect. It will
> certainly make maintenance of the Windows binary releases much more
> difficult.
>
> Edin
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