Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt From: Stig Sæther Bakken (ssb <email protected>)
Date: 04/17/01

[Zeev Suraski <zeev <email protected>>]
> At 05:03 17/4/2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> >Ok, let me just see if I understand...
> >
> >move everything out of the distribution (from mysql popular extensions
> >like mysql to hardly used ones like qtdom), and then, come release time,
> >package a predefined set of PEAR modules and extensions we want to package
> >for PHP4.
>
> Not really - some of the extensions will remain in PHP. I believe
> that the fact that PHP comes bundled with support for some of the most
> common Web environment applications is still a serious factor in its
> success. It did get into a situation when there are simply too many
> not-too-mainstream extensions in there, though, which makes it very
> difficult to find a stable point at time to release it. I wouldn't
> expect MySQL, Oracle or XML support to be removed from PHP, though.

Why not, as long as we put the latest known-to-be-stable version of
each back in when making a release?

 - Stig 

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  Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb <email protected>>
  Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway

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