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 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php