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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 18:52:49 -0400
To: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Are PECL modules preferable?
From: mike@newclarity.net (Mike Schinkel)

> On Mar 21, 2020, at 5:59 PM, tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> =
wrote:
> FROM: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] is_literal()
>=20
> And if it can be implemented as a PECL module, that would be more =
preferable to me than a core module of php.
>  If it was in core, having to support that feature may limit =
optimizations or implementation changes that could be done in the =
future.

Just wanted to address this comment which was made on another thread (I =
did not want to hijack that thread.)

A large number of PHP users have no control over the platform they run =
on, so the option to use PECL modules is a non-starter for them.

Here are several of those managed hosting platforms I speak of. =
Collectively they host a large number of WordPress sites, and Pantheon =
also host Drupal sites:

https://pagely.com/
https://wpvip.com/
https://wpengine.com/
https://kinsta.com/
https://pantheon.io/

Given that, if there is an option between a useful feature being added =
to core or left in PECL, I would vote 100% of the time for core, since =
working with WordPress on a corporate site I can rarely ever use PECL =
extensions.

#fwiw

-Mike=