On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:34:44 -0400
Brad House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps.  There was discussion once upon a time along those lines,
> but nothing else came of it.  I'd have to know what it entails,
> and if it would prohibit the extension from being distributed
> with the main PHP codebase. 

AFAIK the general plan is to move almost all extensions to PECL 
(and we're working on it, take a look on how many extensions were moved 
there in 5.0 and 5.1), so users would be able to get & install only 
extensions they really need.

Personally I don't think that ext/mcve is used by large number of users 
(I haven't ever heard of someone using it) and IMO that's a perfect reason 
to move it from the core to PECL.
I can be wrong, though.

There are also several rather important reasons to do so:
1) you wouldn't depend on PHP release cycles.
2) you would be able to use PECL infrastructure to build Win32 *.dll's
3) Others.

All this doesn't mean that users will not be able to install/use the extension 
or even have some problems with it. Extensions from PECL can be installed with 
this command:
# pear install extname 
See details here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.php

> Forgive my ignorance, but I have
> not even looked into what PECL really is.

Well, I'd recommend to take a look on it, since you're the maintainer of an 
extension..

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal

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