My post about SNAPS and PECLS a little while ago seems relevant to this.
As a windows user, I have to rely on pre-compiled binaries. It was/is my understanding that SNAPS would provide me with most currently succesfully compiled PHP, with some extensions built in and some extensions for my ext directory - those which are deemed important enough (judge important as you would like). PECL contained other extensions - those NOT part of the windows "standard" package. On 27/05/07, Gaetano Giunta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to add my experience (even though the original poster explicitly asked for single extensions not to be mentioned) from a not-completely-unrelated problem: some extensions have an "internal" version number that is not always updated when the userland API of said extension is changed - see eg. Json and the recent change of behavior on decoding scalar values. This makes it very hard for people maintaining php libraries to code defensively and test the version in use to enable workarounds: - the extension version number is useless (if not managed correctly) - the php version number is useless, since the extension might have been downloaded and compiled from pecl and not correspond to the version that is distributed with the core The only option left in this situation is to test the functionality needed first, then use it, much as it is done in js - a very sad state of things... (of course I would not recommend disabling upgrade / backport of a php extension from pecl as a solution) The fact that the extension lives in both pecl and core and the two might be slightly out of sync does not help at all when trying to find out the cause of regressions... Bye Gaetano -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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