Re: Re: svn: /phpdoc/ doc-base/trunk/entities/global.ent doc-base/trunk/manual.xml.in en/trunk/reference/suhosin/book.xml
en/trunk/reference/suhosin/configure.xml en/trunk/reference/suhosin/constants.xml en/trunk/reference/suhosin

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:55, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Hannes Magnusson >> <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:19, Jakub Vrana <vrana@php.net> wrote: >>>> There are already another extensions not available via php.net documented in >>>> the PHP Manual (sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv). So I didn't know that it is a >>>> requirement. I'm sorry for the guerilla approach but I really didn't >>>> suppose >>>> that it will be a problem. >>> >>> Both of them have pecl packages and available via php.net. >>> >>> >>>> Suhosin is still very relevant today because it is a part of PHP package in >>>> some Linux distributions. And people are asking questions like: >>> >>> I do somewhat agree with you, but if the author doesn't want to be >>> involved with php.net then there is very little we can (nor should) do >>> about it. >>> If the distros are messing with PHP then they (following our license) >>> cannot call it PHP anymore, and should warn people about that fact and >>> ensure their users understand the consciences. >>> >> >> imo almost every distro has some patches (apart from suhosin), isn't >> that the same violation? >> it would seem weird if we start a witch-hunt for suhosin only. > > We don't document those patches either. > Weather they change default ini values, unbundle extensions, change > argument order, or whatever distros modifications are done.. we don't > document them. > We document the product of php.net, nothing more. If/When these things > become part of php.net we should document them. > In many cases these authors simply don't want docs on it on php.net, > in other cases php.net does not want to support it... whatever the > reason is, we should not be documenting things outside the php.net > domain. > > -Hannes > I've just replied to the idea that we should tell distributors that they cannot call their version of php as php, if they have custom patches. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu