> It took me a while to find an explanation of what a PECL is. I kept reading 
> comments about things being moved to a PECL but I saw nothing about what is 
> in a PECL or how to get anything out of a (the?) PECL. As far as I knew, 
> there is a danger of all of PHP being in a PECL.
> 
> I could not (and cannot) find an explanation of a PECL when I start by going 
> to the main php.net page and looking for one. So I searched for "PECL" and 
> got a few results; one result is for vpopmail:

Welcome to the club.  I sent a similar email about this a few days ago
and nobody replied.  I was looking for documentation on the fileinfo PECL
module which is recommended instead of mime_content_type, simple stuff like
what arguments does it take etc.  There is also a lack of documentation
for how to install and run and USE PECL modules which is worrying
especially if as you say a lot of PHP is going down the PECL path.

To me PECL looks like a major own goal.

Cue the flames for this being a PHP list and not a PECL list.

TTFN


Dave
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