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   2 title: Phar vs World
   3 author: m6w6
   4 tags:
   5 - WTF
   6 - PHP
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   9 Recent [discussions](http://marc.info/?t=117857313600047&r=1&w=2) about
  10 inclusion of [pecl/phar](http://pecl.php.net/package/phar) into the core
  11 distribution shows again that we are missing a defined process of handling
  12 additions to the PHP main distibution. How many people are really reading
  13 through all mails of 100+ message threads?
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  15 It's going to be a chaos. Always. Once a developer has got his new, shiny and
  16 soon-to-be-world-dominating extension into the core, he'll be a even stronger
  17 advocator of the "no-new-extensions" camp. Not to disrespect any work, but
  18 this is pure rivalism, masculine--really!
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  20 The idea of moving extensions from core to pecl is honorous, but we all know
  21 the current problems of this ideology.
  22
  23 Many people have asked me when
  24 [pecl/http](http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http) will be included in the
  25 main distribution. My answer is short and simple: "Never" (I usually add a
  26 tiny sentence, but that's nothing encouraging either).
  27
  28 Ah... and please do me a favour: rather keep your comments to yourself :)
  29 (...or toss it into the nonsense thread@internals).
  30