Re: What to do with documentation of abandoned PECL extensions

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 16:35, G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > Also another good candidate is vpopmail which was moved out of PHP in PHP 4.3 and hasn't had a PECL release since 2004 [1] and has none of it's function documented in the docs. Cyrus could also fit the bill as it was unbundled from PHP in PHP 5.0.0 [2] and hasn't had a PECL release since 2003 [3] George P. Banyard [1] https://pecl.php.net/package/vpopmail [2] https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.cyrus.php [3] https://pecl.php.net/package/cyrus