On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > <mihamina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all, >> Wondering about the difference between PECL and PEAR, I found: >> http://board.phpbuilder.com/showthread.php?10339238-Pecl-vs-Pear >> >> Is it a suitable answer? > > It's close. > > PECL (sometimes pronounced "pickle") stands for PHP Extension > Community Library, which is - as the name suggests - a library of PHP > extensions. Things like APC, memcache, amqp, and sqlite are examples > of popular PECL extensions. PECL is a repository of compiled > binaries. > > By contrast, PEAR - the PHP Extension and Application Repository - > is actually not a library of extensions in the common definition, > despite what the name suggests. Instead, it's a collection of > unrelated reusable components, written in PHP, to be used for > application development. PEAR is technically considered a framework, > but is more commonly used as individual classes, as opposed to a full > framework deployment in the traditional sense, such as Yii, Zend, > CodeIgniter, 2x4, et al. Popular PEAR packages include Mail, > PHP_Codesniffer, Date_Holidays, and various API service components > such as those used with Amazon Web Services (AWS). PEAR components > are supposed to follow the PEAR Coding Standard as well. > > If unsure which library to check for a given component, consider > the following: PEAR components are always First_Letter_Capitalized, > while PECL extensions are generally not. > > >> If so, several Linux ditribution have: >> * php-pecl-xxx (PECL) >> * php-pear-vvv (PEAR) >> * php-yyy (???) >> packages (rpm and deb). >> >> What about the last kind? > > php-pecl-xxx, php5-pecl, et cetera, are the PECL support libraries > and may also refer to PECL extensions. > > php-pear-vvv, php5-pear, et cetera, are the PEAR support libraries > and may also refer to PEAR components. > > php-yyy, php5-yyy, et cetera, are individual packages. For > example, php_mysql or php5-cli. > > If possible, however, when installing PECL or PEAR packages, use > the pecl or pear command line tool, respectively. For example: > > pecl install pdo_sqlite Is this really the recommended way on distros' which package the pecl packages? It seems to me it would be better to use the distros' version, so it has the required patches (if any) for them to work correctly on the distro, and they get upgraded automatically with the system updates. What is the advantage of using the pecl tool? - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
