I agree with Edin here. We need to make sure the Windows builds are not too
far behind the *nix releases. In other words we need to make sure
everyting is in place to build and release on Win32 before we move all
extensions.
- Frank
> On 7 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > So now that the PEAR framework for bundling extensions is in place, I
> > figured I'd start a thread about moving all extensions to PECL, and
then
> > selectively bundling them from PECL (perhaps maintaining physical
> > aliases as well.)
>
> -1
> I'm strongly against this move. First of all PEAR framework for handling
> extensions is nowhere near complete. It has no support for Windows. It
has
> no notion of what version of PECL package can be built with what version
> of PHP. It requires latest and the greatest GNU tools installed on the
> system which is rarely true for some commercial Unixes.
>
> If we are going to bundle most of those extensions anyway, removing them
> to PECL would directly reduce the quality of the release as most of them
> will receive very little testing.
>
> I understand the wish to make the release process more easy, but I'm
> afraid that this proposal will achieve exactly to opposite effect. It
will
