I agree with Edin here. We need to make sure the Windows builds are not too
far behind the *nix releases. In other words we need to make sure
everyting is in place to build and release on Win32 before we move all
extensions.
- Frank
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