Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] [domxml] namespaces / exception / extensionname

Christian Stocker wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Shane Caraveo wrote:
> 
> 
>>The code differences are fine.  Stepping between 4.x and 5 is going to
>>break things anyway, as far as I'm concerned, and the change is simple
>>enough to deal with in most cases.  It's also simple enough to write
>>little script wrappers to add compatibility.  I just think it's
>>important for extensions to start being developed 'independent of the
>>engine', so that updates to extensions can benefit more than just the
>>next release.
> 
> 
> I compl. agree with that. I assume, that was/is the goal of PECL. But at
> the moment, PECL is, as someone quoted it, more or less like siberia. It's
> hard enough to get your provider to install some non-standard extensions,
> but to get them to install something from PECL, most presumably, hell will
> freeze over first ;) So, something has to change there, before we can aim
> for the "release-new-extension-updates-independently-from-php-releases".
> And it doesn't look like the moving of all (or most) extensions to PECL
> will happen soon.. It's some kind of dead-lock, IMHO

<rant>PECL will stop being Siberia only when developers realize the 
benefits and choose to support that model of development, and only when 
some of them get it through their thick skulls that having the 
development in PECL doesn't necessarily mean removal from the PHP source 
distribution.</rant>

>>BTW, does libxml have a streaming pull parser?
> 
> 
> You mean something like that -> http://www.xmlsoft.org/xmlreader.html ?

Yep, exactly :)

Shane