Experimental extensions are not finished, likely undocumented, prone to change, prone to bugs, etc. They shouldn't be in core at all. core should be entirly stable. If it's an important enough extension it will be recognized as such, and mirrored to core after it is stable.
Shane Vlad Krupin wrote: > +1. > Except EXPERIMENTAL ones. If an extension belongs in the CORE, it makes > no sense to stuff it in PECL and then move back to core once > EXPERIMENTAL status is dropped. > Vlad > > > Shane Caraveo wrote: > >> > I would like reinstatement of msession into the main tree, and if >> you oppose I would like a serious >> > discussion to take place on the developer list. If you support it, I >> need you to sound in on the >> > discussion. >> >> Well, I feel like 80%, if not more, of the extensions should move to >> PECL, leaving only the bare essential extensions, and only those that >> are cross-platform. There are 111 extensions in the main php >> distribution, it's gotten way out of hand. If it were my choice the >> following would happen: >> >> Move to PECL: >> all non-cross-platform extensions >> all 'product' specific extensions (cybercash, midgard, etc.) >> legacy db extensions >> all extensions marked EXPERIMENTAL >> any undocumented extensions >> >> exceptions would be made for 'major' technologies like ODBC and COM, >> and those extensions required to install other extensions (zlib, >> xmlrpc, etc.). Binary distributions would contain certain extensions >> from PECL, for example the win32api extension, which realy shouldn't >> be in the primary distribution, but should be in the win32 binary >> distribution. >> >> Getting a new extension into the core should be very hard, and >> essentialy reviewed by the release manager and the major active >> developers. >> >> My opinion on this is nothing personal towards you, and I do think the >> move to PECL was handled incorrectly, but I'm not convinced it should >> be in the core distribution. I've spent lots of hours coding things I >> feel are very important, but that does not equal being important to a >> core distribution of a given project. >> >> Shane >> >> > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
