Re: [PHP-DEV] Latest commit -- depreciation of call_user_method()

[Jani Taskinen]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

>> Ah. I must have been dreaming then.. :)
>> I remember that someone submitted some bug report about this very issue.
>>
>> Anyway, now I see that there really is good reason having that
>> version (PHP_#ext#_API_NO ?) after all. And having that..we should
>> propable start moving those extensions one by one into PEAR?
>
>That has been the plan for a while now.  Not necessarily moving all the
>optional extensions, but some of them.  And new fringe extensions would go
>straight to PEAR.

Too bad it seems not to be going anywhere..

>> And btw. Why not have a function in PHP core that can be used to get the
>> desired extensions remotely from pear.php.net? If we have a
>> PHP_#ext#_API_NO, running a 'update_php_extensions()' would
>> go and grab the updated (if the extension HAS been updated) one..etc..
>> (I'm just thinking out loud..ignore me :)
>
>There is the start of a set of command line tools for doing this.

I don't think having those separately is a good idea.
More like a function set in PHP would make more sense.
As you have to have the core PHP anyway?

--Jani



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