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

> <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>

ACK, but until today being in PECL meant being excluded from PHP source
distribution. Even extensions moved from php4/ext to pear/pecl were
not distributed anymore. And the discussion about providing windows
binaries for some PECL-extensions lately didn't put much confidence in me
that this will change in the near future (the main point in this
discussion that PECL extensions can not be trusted was quite irrational to
me..).

I think, at the end it's some kind of "chicken and egg" problem (yeah,
it's easter ;)). Until not one of the main extension of php is moved to
PECL, not much will change, I assume. And if one of those main extensions
will be moved at all, depends very largely on the maintainer.. Maybe we
should move all XML extensions (ext/xslt, ext/domxml, ext/xmlrpc, ext/wddx
and ext/xml which got some fixes lately as well) to PECL. This could make
some impact on the overall awareness of PECL and the policy of including
which extensions in the PHP source distribution.

chregu




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

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