On 8 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: > 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).
You seem to contradict yourself in the two paragraphs above. We are not talking about unbundling anything and yet at the same time the release master decides what extensions to bundle. This can only mean that the future releases of PHP will contain extensions that recieve less testing than the ones we have in the release today. Additionally I think that having different extension set for each release can only bring confussion. > 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. :) I have been a part of this debate for a long time too and I don't remember that a definitive agreement has been reached beyond a "nice to have in the future" sort of statement. This move will also IMO introduce more complexity into already very complex release process. And Win32 is an issue since there is currently no tool that allows installation of PECL-only binarries. To sum it all up: nice idea but its implementation at the present time would create more trouble than its worth it. Edin -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
