Somebody wrote somewhere: > > > Would you agree if things are done correctly that it is in everyone's best > > interests to keep a solid and well-maintained driver for InterBase and > > Firebird in the core?
No. When PHP first became widely used, distributing software was difficult, and having everything in one place made life a bit easier for both the people writing code, and users. Since then, people have invented distributed version control (like git), easily available online code repositories (like Github), and self-published software (like Composer/Packagist + NPM). These have all made it much, much easier to distribute software. I'm pretty sure one of the big goals that the PHP project should try to accomplish over the next year or two is to allow extensions to be distributed through channels similar to Composer. If/when that happens, there's a very good chance that other extensions will be moved out from core (imo) as having extensions be separate is better as it means: * extensions are not forced to have the same release schedule. * there can be natural selection in which extensions people use. * most discussions about extensions that only a very few people use won't need to be on the PHP internals list. cheers Dan Ack -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
