On 12/10/14 01:13, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Keep in mind though that it would be mostly symbolic. The majority of users > get their PHP and extensions from distros. And distros have been separating > out core-bundled extensions for a decade now. Users have absolutely no idea > whether their php-mysql package comes from core or from pecl, nor do they > care. So, unbundling it on our side will have close to zero impact on its > use. In fact, in a weird way it might actually help make people continue to > use it because if we unbundle it and stick it in pecl we would obviously not > have it spew out 'deprecated' notices like we do as of 5.5. I mean, we still > could, of course, but it would be weird having a non-core pecl extension > declare itself deprecated. > > I am not against unbundling it, I just don't think it will achieve what you > hope it will.
I may be wrong but certainly SUSE bundles mysql, mysqli and pdo_mysql in the one package and I think most do? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
