# Moving to PECL

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/2215
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- Started by Frank M. Kromann on 2003-06-08T05:11:20+00:00
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## #2215 — Frank M. Kromann — 2003-06-08T05:11:20+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/2215#2215

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

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> 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