On 4/25/06, Steph Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since when have existing books been a reason not to change something?

Given the lack of documentation on this topic and the fact that
ext_skel and ext/skeleton are pretty much just plain text, I think
it's a pretty damned good reason.

> > I can't see any negative points to keeping ext/skeleton in the tree.
>
> I can't see any positive ones  :)

That's because you don't use it.
I use ext_skel a lot.  I'm fairly sure that most extension authors
also start with ext_skel.

> the view that the template is essentially part of PHP itself?

yes.

> It'd be good to have Hartmut's view on that, since he wrote both those
> systems.

I suspect that Hartmut will want to keep at least one of them around
in the core.

> .. the least being that it would make it a one-step process to install a PDO
> driver. Is there any reason it isn't?

You just turn it on in the php.ini file (we ship the DLLs).
That's "one-step", right?
It's a gazillion times easier than unix.

--Wez.

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