On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Antony Dovgal wrote:

> When we move something to PECL or deprecate a core extension in favor of its
> PECL analogue, it does not mean the PECL extension should be moved into core,
> that's not the point.
> Btw, quite a number of useful extensions were born in PECL and there are no
> plans of moving into core either.

But I would think that while there is an extension in PECL that is 
favoured over a deprecated extension in the core, we should be able to 
swap it. 

> > I think its reasonable for develpers to have access to this 
> > functionality without the need to install pecl/pear additions which 
> > in a hosting environment may not be possible.
> 
> Anyone capable of installing core extension, is capable of installing an
> extension from PECL, in most cases it's as easy as `pecl install <name>`.

Yes, but no hosters do that and I would actually push for turning this 
very usefull extension on by default. I spoke with Ilia before and we 
can most likely even bundle it when we make the library file in memory 
as well. And I think we should improve the ext a bit and put it in.

regards,
Derick

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