Steph Fox wrote:
Hi Marcus,
what I want is php-src as minimum you can depend on. And php-default as
release managers playground. The RM can then say what he thinks is mature
enough to make it into a release.
What _I_ want is a PHP core that is really core. By that I mean things
like: date, spl, pcre, zlib, filter, simplexml, core-ish stuff such as
PDO (no PDO drivers, unless we bundle SQLite as we could/should IMHO so
there's a working DB for all), and underlying libs like libxml and
mysqlnd that will make life easier for the many. I think what is
distributed with PHP should be built-in and enabled by default, and it
should include the basic essentials for making a simple website without
anything else being added - and nothing more.
This opens another can of worms :(
Why include installation specific stuff in the core. MySQL was dropped as the
default for a reason lets not reintroduce it.
Not bothering much WITH MySQL ( other than ensuring that SQL generated in my
projects will still run on it ) I see that this new mysqlnd module is intended
to SUPPORT PDO. Is THIS the way forward, building native drivers that can be
used via PDO or is it just a another indication that one needs both PDO and a
native driver?
Everything else - the fashionistas (JSON, xmlreader/writer) and the
downright useful for some but not all (fileinfo, json, com_dotnet,
posix) and the quirky stuff (pretty much anything Sara came up with) -
should be in PECL.
A release managers playground? Maybe we should look at PHP core + a
'recommended' PECL release that ships with it, and refer everyone to
pecl.php.net/pecl4win.php.net for anything else.
This assuming the problems I listed earlier are dealt with, natch.
- Steph
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