Re: [PDO] PDO2 as a set of PECL extensions, rather than PHP core?

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Dan Scott wrote:

> On 28/01/2008, Steph Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > > Those non-CLA signing people could even change the code in core, too,
> > > if they felt that it was warranted. They would be contributing to a
> > > derivative work, not to PDO2 itself.
> >
> > That's where the plan falls down. It would be **symlinked**.
> 
> But it doesn't have to be symlinked. That's just the way that things
> are done currently, right?

Yeah, and it gives some headaches actually.

> Code could just be continually copied and
> merged from the PECL repository into core to maintain the core PDO's
> derived state.

This is surely not what we want though. Why duplicate work? How does 
modified code in the derivate end up in PECL? There are then two 
incompatible versions... sounds like a bad idea to me.

> Alternately, PDO could be pulled out of core. When you download and
> install Perl, you don't get DBI - you have to get that separately
> (well, maybe not on Windows, depending on the distributor's
> package...).

Yeah, let's make it harder for users instead. This is all nice ideas, 
but not what PHP is all about. I find it prepoustrous that we need to go 
evading unnecessairy CLAs.

Derick