Hi Marcus,
Anyway my idea is to start everything in PECL and
to to move everything out that can be moved out. And that includes all
MySQL
extensions as well as SQLite. Only this way people will use the PELC
infrastructure. Otherwise we would just reduce functionality of PHP. And
btw
nearly all linux distributions today offer a bunch of PECL extensions, and
for windows we offer DLLs for most PECL extensions for a long time now.
The problem with this, as I wrote earlier, is that people relying on hosting
can't use them, and hosts tend not to know as much as they could about PHP
or its extensions. There does need to be a basic agreement here about what
PHP is without any additions. IMHO that should be the minimum necessary to
build a simple website, ie even if your host knows nothing about PHP it's
still possible to do something useful with it. I suggested SQLite as a way
of ensuring that there is _some_ database in PHP regardless of whether the
host has added something or not. PDO should be built-in anyway. Neither is
the case under doze @ present - both are separate entities that have to be
explicitly enabled, i.e. there is no intrinsic database support in PHP. And
yes, you do get Windows hosting these days.
Also, we can't rely on linux distributions/the availability of DLLs on
php.net for distribution. There needs to be a single simple cross-platform
method for getting hold of extensions for PHP - but I think Greg's so close
to achieving that, it isn't really an issue. The problem of zero QA, is.
- Steph
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