Derick Rethans wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Andreas Korthaus wrote:
Will pecl_http be included?
(AFAIR something like that has been discussed earlier this year on this list)
We have the policy of not adding more very specialized extensions to the
PHP core distribution - those extensions should live in PECL.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I have seen that many core-Extensions
have been moved to PECL, and I think is's the right way.
But in php-core you have many similarly specialized Extensions, such as
ftp, imap, snmp...
And in my opinion HTTP is used more often than those core-Extensions.
I'm reading and writing a lot in php-related forums and I do not hear
people using those core-Extensions very often. But nearly every day I
recommend people using things like PEAR::HTTP_Request (which is not easy
to install in shared hosting, the alternative is writing your own
userspace function/class using fsockopen...), or explain why
"include($_GET['site']);" is not a good idea...
I think pecl_http is not more specialized than most other
core-Extensions, but from my (users) point of view it is a very valuable
extension for most users. If it lives in PECL, I think must users will
never use it.
But it's not my decision ;-)
best regards
Andreas
--
PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
