Hi,
Il 18/08/2026 15:04, Aleksander Machniak ha scritto:
I don't agree that case-sensitive here would be better.
There's multiple variations of extension names, e.g. PDO, SimpleXML,
Xdebug, swoole.
And for example --disable-simplexml exists (btw, is this one case-
insensitive? why not --disable-SimleXML?). The point is that in some
places you don't have to know the exact casing. So, why would I have to
know when checking for an extension existence?
More importantly, is it possible currently to have both Myext and myext
enabled?
I'd say there might be more arguments for case-insensitive solution here.
Wearing my RM hat, I've already mentioned that I'd be perfectly fine
with 8.6 having a case‑insensitive `ini_get_all()`.
Wearing any other hat I might have, I agree that keeping extension names
case‑insensitive makes far more sense.
Another example is `composer.json` and its `ext-*` dependencies, which
are also generally written in their lowercase variants.
To me, this would be one of those useless BC breaks that make the user
experience worse instead of improving it.
Cheers
--
Matteo Beccati
