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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:12:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] oci in pecl...
From: Stig.Bakken@overture.com ("Stig S. Bakken")

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:24, Wez Furlong wrote:
> >     And you're moving us into the support nightmare..
> >     Instead of asking what php version they use, we need
> >     to start asking which possible versions of different
> >     extensions they happen to use, how they compiled them,
> >     etc. etc. etc.
> 
> The flip side is that we can provide them with a "localized"
> (not in the i18n sense!) fix much sooner.
> 
> This isn't really a problem as you tend to mark all bug
> reports as bogus anyway, and no one else provides support.

IMHO moving extensions to PECL would improve the extension maintainer's
ability to provide support, just because he is able to roll patchlevel
releases only with bug fixes.
     
 - Stig