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Re: [PHP-DOC] PECL in version information

Gabor Hojtsy

2004-12-30, 8:55 pm

>> Here is the patch for including PECL functions in version information
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> Althought the bz2 extension is in PECL, it is bundled in the main
> distribution, so why write PECL?
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> IMHO, PECL should just be used for functions that aren't bundled.
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> Examples:
> tidy_xx (PECL PHP >= 4.3.0, PHP 5) -- parsing the package.xml you can
> get the PHP version
> or even better:
> tidy_get_xx (PECL tidy >= 0.5.2, PHP 5) -- this one would be must more
> difficult to do, but just a suggestion :)
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> spl* (PHP 5), not spl*(PHP 5, PECL)
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> suggestions?

Right. The old question comes up again. Deal with bundled and not
bundled stuff differently...

Goba

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