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

On 28/01/2008, Dan Scott <[email protected]> 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? 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?

Bah. Please forget that last paragraph; I keep forgetting that the
concern is those who dislike a CLA would not be able to participate in
the non-core process (assuming that the non-core approach kept a CLA
of some kind). My bad.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University