At 04:33 AM 2/4/2008, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Steph Fox wrote:
> Everything else - the fashionistas (JSON, xmlreader/writer) and
the downright
> useful for some but not all (fileinfo, json, com_dotnet, posix)
and the quirky
> stuff (pretty much anything Sara came up with) - should be in PECL.
I see another issue after reading this, and that is that it makes it
much harder for users to depend on specific extensions just being always
available by default. It's important for application distributers to
have this core set of extensions to rely on. It's annoying enough that
some distributions (gentoo, freebsd) already use --disable-all and their
users then bugging us (or me) with "you should check that SPL is enabled
in your code".
Just poking up my head to concur with Derick. What one
person thinks of as 'fashionistas', another person will think of as
absolutely core and necessary -- for example, I use xmlreader/writer
in almost every piece of code I put out. If it were suddenly part of
a PECL, a whole bunch of things I've written would break instantly.
Yes, it's easy enough to work around, but backwards-compatibility
will make for a happy PHP community.
--->Ben
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