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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] question on policy of renaming an extension
From: rasmus@php.net (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Brad House wrote:
> Well, PECL still seems a bit like the redheaded step-child. I cannot
> even seem to reference it in the php documentation online (except for
> seeing some modules have been moved there).
> There are quite a few users that utilize this extension, including
> enterprise clients like Thrifty Car Rental, which I'd rather not
> inconvenience if possible.
> When PECL is better adopted by the community, and PHP provides
> documentation on them, I would have no problem moving it there.

What do you mean provides documentation on them?  PECL extensions are 
documented right next to any other extension, providing someone has 
written the documentation, of course.  You didn't find special pecl 
extension documentation precisely because pecl extensions are perfectly 
integrated so the end user has no idea that they are even using one.

Did you know that ext/oci8, ext/tidy, ext/simplexml and ext/sqlite and 
ext/bz2 are all actually pecl extensions for example?

And yes, I agree with others that this should go to PECL now.

-Rasmus