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

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

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...). I'm pretty sure the same is true for Python (as there is
no core DBI package in Python, just db drivers that implement the DBI
interface). Does it really matter if PDO is part of the php-src CVS
directory or not?

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University