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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:02:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundling "modern" extensions
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 23:00 +0000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been getting quite a few inquiries re: PHP's "lack" of support
> for modern technologies such as NoSQL databases (for lack of better
> term). There is some (mistaken) perception that PHP is behind on this
> front. 

I'm in the believe that PHP should bundle rather less than more and we
should advertise PECL better and probably better separate "Siberia" from
well maintained parts.

For "average" users I see not too much benefit by bundling. Distributors
often make no difference between PECL and Core extensions in their
repositories and on some distributions one even can't find all Core
extensions while PECL stuff is there. I found lots of PECL stuff on
shared hosts, also.

johannes