What to do with documentation of abandoned PECL extensions
| From: | G. P. B. | Date: | Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:35:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | What to do with documentation of abandoned PECL extensions | ||
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Hello Doc List,
I'm just curious to know how is the documentation for abandoned extensions
handled?
Is there a process to be able to remove them?
Some of the examples I'm thinking of are:
- APC (abandoned in favor of APCu)
- bcompiler (does not work on PHP 7)
- DB++ (only PECL release is from 2003 and from the PHP 4 era from my
understanding)
- filePro (unmaintained and moved out of PHP in PHP 5.2)
- FrontBase (can't seem to find it on PECL even though it should have
been moved to PECL in PHP 5.3, and weirdly all the functions say that they
are available in PHP and 7 when IIRC there is a user note saying it doesn't
compile as of a version of PHP 5.x)
- Informix (no release on PECL and out of PHP in PHP 5.2)
- MaxDB (last PECL release 2007)
- Possibly Mhash as it was integrated into Hash?
And there are probably plenty more.
I also know that the current doc is meant to document the whole life cycle
of PHP 5.
However, I'm also wary of having docs of extensions which are obsolete and
don't compile in the doc.
Or would those get cleaned up when we drop PHP 5 support in the doc
(possible with the release of PHP 8)?
Best regards
George P. Banyard