Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15881 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35725 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Apr 2005 20:45:57 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35710 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2005 20:45:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chiaraquartet.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Apr 2005 20:45:57 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.64.38.41 bluga.net Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([69.64.38.41:46590] helo=bluga.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5268)) with SMTP id 87/29-19272-58A44524 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:45:57 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bluga.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7F221C17D; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:43:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bluga.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bluga.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17311-10; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:43:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (cpe-66-65-39-8.nyc.res.rr.com [66.65.39.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bluga.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACCD21C0D3; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:43:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42544A7C.7040002@chiaraquartet.net> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:45:48 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wez Furlong Cc: internals@lists.php.net References: <20050406080342.GA50522@deejai2.mch.fsc.net> <20050406153705.GA29707@redhat.com> <4e89b426050406092319acbd7e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e89b426050406092319acbd7e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at bluga.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Stupid question: pear/DB From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver) Wez Furlong wrote: >Greg might be able to answer this, > >--Wez. > >On Apr 6, 2005 11:37 AM, Joe Orton wrote: > > >>On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:03:42AM +0200, Martin Kraemer wrote: >> >> >>>A colleague noticed that in an upgrade from 4.3.10 to 4.3.11 the >>>pear/DB extension was no longer installed. The ChangeLog does not >>>mention this. Should it be added to the changelog, and why was it >>>dropped? I didn't completely follow the discussion here... >>> >>> >>Not only DB, but HTTP, Mail, XML_Parser, Net_Socket, Net_SMTP were all >>dropped from the tarball. Was this a deliberate change? Will future >>releases continue to not include these PEAR packages? >> >> Yes. To understand the decision, it is best to read the pear-dev and pear-core archives. Downloading and installing these packages is simple, and keeping them up to date was proving to be impossible. It was introducing potential security risks as well (older versions may not contain critical fixes) Greg