Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:24751 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44442 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Jul 2006 09:20:47 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44426 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2006 09:20:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jul 2006 09:20:47 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.123.98.46 unknown Received: from ([80.123.98.46:26911] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.3 r(11751M)) with ESMTP id 0D/60-29121-FEA4FB44 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:20:47 -0400 Message-ID: <0D.60.29121.FEA4FB44@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:21:29 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060615) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060719173451.114d4528@pierre-u64> <44BE56EF.9060908@zend.com> <44BF470A.40807@zend.com> In-Reply-To: <44BF470A.40807@zend.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 80.123.98.46 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding pecl/zip to 5.2 From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner) Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 20.07.2006 11:52, Robin Ericsson wrote: >> Seems silly to have a place like PECL where extensions can live their >> own life with their own release-cycles > > That's another problem for another offtopic discussion: > "own release cycle" is just a myth, because of the "symlinks" used to > link PECL extensions to core. > You can't have, for example, development version in PECL and stable > version in the core, you HAVE to stabilize your code before any PHP > release, because it's basically the same code. Well, an extension author could choose to import the extension to /php-src instead of creating a link, no? Regards, -- Michael