> I have worked with PHP for 14 years now and I know nothing about PEAR. It > either says something about me or about PEAR.
Then the next logical question would be do you know what PECL is? :) But to be short my point is - before attempting to get new function(ality) in core it (seems to me) that more realistic if you really want to achieve that is at least by presenting some kind of working base blocks especially when there are all the means to extend the language both on low level (being an extension) or a pure-php package in any of the existing channels (composer / push for repopulation of PEAR? etc). There is usually the argument - "if this is not in core no one (people on shared environments/hosting) won't be able to use it" and so on.. The counter to that are things like Imagick / redis / memcache(d) / APCu which are vastly popular but still live outside core (obviously those are not language rather than engine features). rr -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
