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Date: 16 May 2003 15:12:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Astrology
From: sterling@bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 16:24, Jani Taskinen wrote:
> On 16 May 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Its on the TODO list (and been agreed upon and planned multiple times),
> >but I figured I'd ask one more time before I go and move the
> >extensions.   Are we still planning on moving all the extensions to PECL
> >to then be bundled at release time?  And if so, is there any reason not
> >to do it now?
> 
>     Most of them should still be 'linked' to the php5 CVS module.

I don't believe that was the idea (that doesn't mean you can't disagree
with the idea, of course ;).  The idea was that PHP releases take way to
long because we need to coordinate too many extensions.  Therefore we
were going to move all the extensions to PECL, except the ones that
should fall under PHP's "core" extensions (extensions that we should QA
ourselves).  Then, at release time, the last stable release of the
standard extensions would be "bundled."

>     And you still haven't removed the bundle/ directory..when are you
>     going to do that? It was already agreed that it should go away..
>     

*It* wasn't agreed.  *I* agreed.  All that I have said is that if expat
is removed alongside of libxml2 then *I* have no problem.  I don't speak
for anyone else, and if someone wants to remove both, then they should
send a message to internals@ stating their intentions.  

As I said before, I will certainly not stand in the way of any effort to
unbundle, so long as libxml2 isn't prejudiced as a result.  However, I
don't see the current situation as a necessarily bad thing (I'm torn, I
see arguments both for and against bundling.)  Anyhow, that's not the
point of this thread.

-Sterling

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