Satellite (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0.7)

On Thursday 09 August 2001 22:47, Jani Taskinen wrote: > As the satellite extension has been experimental all of it's lifetime, > and it doesn't even compile (at least very easily :) I'd say nuke that > one, and put Universe in the CVS. Also, add a warning to configure > for satellite '--with-satellite' which breaks the configure and > instructs to use '--with-universe' instead and points to the README > in there. I just refreshed the Satellite extension a little, and set up a demo server at http://satellite.2good.nu so you can see that it actually works! :-) But Universe is still better as it uses MICO and not the crappy ORBit. > Would this be good time to create that 'old_extensions' > module/directory? And start moving those deprecated extensions there?? > And as of 4.1 remove them from the release. > > A good thing might be to have one central config.m4 which holds all > the old configure options, and warns people if they use them? Good idea! :-) -\- David Eriksson -/- "An expert in a particular computer language is really an expert in the work-arounds necessary to use this language to perform useful work." - Richard B. Johnson