> > It is the same thing than pear, but most of extensions are written with > > C in order to increase performance.
Increases in performance aren't the only reason, but it is a reason. > > tidy is a php extension (PECL), for example. Yes. > > Php extensions are all that is not in the php core. Not true. In the future there are hopes of moving all PHP extensions to PECL and simply bundling the latest stable release of a extension from PECL as part of the main PHP distribution. For instance, Tidy is a part of the standard PHP 5.0 distribution although it lives in PECL. John -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php