From:	Michael A. Peters	Date:	Thu Jul  2 06:54:08 2009
Subject:	Re: Re: PHP 5.3.0 Released!

Nick Cooper wrote:
> Does anyone have any further information on the PECL Binaries for 5.3, will
> they be released?

I don't, but I suspect it is just a matter of compile + test.

On Linux (CentOS) I've only done testing with i386 but none of the pecl 
modules I personally am using w/ 5.2.9 failed to build (for i386 or 
x86_64) and they all seem to work as expected (i386). So I expect for 
most of them, the distributed binaries will appear once they have had a 
little testing.

-=-
The problems I personally have run into:

eAccelerator (stable) fails to build.
Devel version does (at least according to their bug system) but does not 
work properly.

suhosin module builds and works but kills the ability of pear to 
properly work (pear packages work fine, it's the package management that 
suhosin kills - can't even list channels w/o segfault)

Many of the pear packages throw deprecation errors to screen if you have 
display_errors enabled. They seem to work, and it seems that these are 
errors that were thrown before as well but only under strict reporting. 
My guess is they are being brought to the forefront so the code can be 
fixed before php 6. Not a biggie if error reporting disabled, but a PITA 
on a development machine where you are trying to see errors thrown in 
*your* code.

Maybe it's time for the community to go through pear, fix the errors, 
and submit patches to the maintainers that take care of the deprecated 
usage.