Re: [PHP-DEV] Fw: [PDO] [RFC] An Idea for PDO 2

Hello Steph,

  all we need is to extend the PECL database with a license type field and a
CLA flag. Nothing else is required at that end. But we should still move as
much from php-src/ext to pecl as we can.

marcus

Saturday, February 2, 2008, 6:36:23 PM, you wrote:

>> If we're going the PECL refurbishment route, can we have some way of 
>> marking non-standard (as in CLA'd or differently-licensed) extensions to 
>> make contributors' lives easier and future discussions of this nature 
>> moot? Possibly even a separate CVS module that hooks into the PECL 
>> infrastructure?

> e.g. PECLA ? :)

> This seemed a bad idea to me last night, but actually it could work out well
> (assuming PECL itself is sorted out pronto). From the end user perspective 
> there'd be no distinction between PECL and PECLA extensions - both would 
> have pecl.php.net homepages and releases etc - but from the dev perspective 
> there's this whole marked area that you know you're going to need to sign 
> something if you want to contribute to it, and it would require a separate 
> checkout.

> It also has the advantage that we don't need to wait for PECL to be fixed 
> before opening up the repository module, although obviously how well it 
> works would be down to how well PECL resolves its problems.

> Thoughts, anyone?

> - Steph 




Best regards,
 Marcus