[PHP-DEV] Re: Question: What are requirements for having (new/old) functionswithin PHP core? :)

2022-03-07 Thread Mark Randall
On 07/03/2022 12:56, Thomas Krüger wrote: Or if it has nothing to do with performance, why not including everything from PECL into PHP core, so PHP could offer out-of-the-box more and more features for developers? PECL packages get to maintain their own release schedule, unlike PHP which fol

[PHP-DEV] Question: What are requirements for having (new/old) functions within PHP core? :)

2022-03-07 Thread Thomas Krüger
Dear internal developers of PHP, I got a question after viewing the PHP sources for the core functions (ext folder) about the internal PHP functions written in C. On the one hand I have these core functions like soundex() or levenshtein() which seems to be part of PHP core and on the other ha