Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Adam Dickmeiss wrote: > >>We could throw mysql and gd away - they have more ifdefs! (pear is >>not a garbage can. If it is treated as such, nobody will move). >> > > PEAR / PECL is certainly no garbage can. Also, nobody wants to throw > away the msession extension. It's just that we decided some time ago > that new extensions should go to PEAR. > > The comparison to GD and MySQL is a bad one, since those two extensions > belong to the most sommonly used PHP extensions. > > We decided, too, to move less common extensions from /php4/ to /pear/ > to ease our release cycle.
Almost all normal extensions will be moved to PECL, IIRC. (normal normal extension means modules other than internal module) And few popular extensions may be added when we release new PHP. Unless module is located under PECL, the module maintainer will have problem with bug fix release for the module. - Yasuo Ohgaki -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
