Moving to PECL

So now that the PEAR framework for bundling extensions is in
place, I figured I'd start a thread about moving all
extensions to PECL, and then selectively bundling them from
PECL (perhaps maintaining physical aliases as well.)

I'm +1 on this.. And already offered to move stuff, so one other point on
Sterling's list is extensions that will move, and extensions that will stay
firmly where they are.

-- james

Hi,

So now that the PEAR framework for bundling extensions is in place, I
figured I'd start a thread about moving all extensions to PECL, and then
selectively bundling them from PECL (perhaps maintaining physical
aliases as well.)

-1
I'm strongly against this move. First of all PEAR framework for handling
extensions is nowhere near complete. It has no support for Windows. It has
no notion of what version of PECL package can be built with what version
of PHP. It requires latest and the greatest GNU tools installed on the
system which is rarely true for some commercial Unixes.

If we are going to bundle most of those extensions anyway, removing them
to PECL would directly reduce the quality of the release as most of them
will receive very little testing.

I understand the wish to make the release process more easy, but I'm
afraid that this proposal will achieve exactly to opposite effect. It will
certainly make maintenance of the Windows binary releases much more
difficult.

Edin

Is PECL going to move to the top level in CVS? - it's a bit hidden away
at the moment... (and I guess after these are moved - creating a 'real'
php5 directory?? - so their's not so many empty directories lying around?)

Regards
Alan

Sterling Hughes wrote:

Hi,

So now that the PEAR framework for bundling extensions is in place, I
figured I'd start a thread about moving all extensions to PECL, and then
selectively bundling them from PECL (perhaps maintaining physical
aliases as well.)

With the new system, when a release is made, the RM simply needs to run
::

./bundle-release

In the PHP5 directory. And the packages are bundled at the last stable
version. I'm for moving on getting this done asap. So I guess the
discussion now is:

a) Any last objections?
b) Should any extensions fall within the PHP-QA process?
c) Is there anything I'm missing/that is missing at this point?

-Sterling

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