Re: [PHP-DEV] Stupid question: pear/DB

[Greg Beaver]

Wez Furlong wrote:
Greg might be able to answer this,
--Wez.
On Apr 6, 2005 11:37 AM, Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:03:42AM +0200, Martin Kraemer wrote:
   

A colleague noticed that in an upgrade from 4.3.10 to 4.3.11 the
pear/DB extension was no longer installed. The ChangeLog does not
mention this. Should it be added to the changelog, and why was it
dropped? I didn't completely follow the discussion here...
     

Not only DB, but HTTP, Mail, XML_Parser, Net_Socket, Net_SMTP were all
dropped from the tarball.  Was this a deliberate change?  Will future
releases continue to not include these PEAR packages?
   

Yes.  To understand the decision, it is best to read the pear-dev and 
pear-core archives.

Downloading and installing these packages is simple, and keeping them up 
to date was proving to be impossible.  It was introducing potential 
security risks as well (older versions may not contain critical fixes)

Greg
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