Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
| From: | Andrey Andreev | Date: | Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:54:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> | ||
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Hi,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>> Readline is the only extension in your list that I would be sad about
>> losing. I use it every day, I guess a lot of devs do.
>
> It's not "losing", per se, as the code doesn't get erased, it just moved
> to PECL. All distros can build it from there just as they do now. Then
> again, if it's super-important and doesn't have any major issues, we
> could keep it (or any other extension) around in "community maintained"
> status for a while.
>
If "php -a" doesn't work without ext/readline (and I know it never
works for me if I don't install the distro-provided php-readline
package), then it is super-important.
Cheers,
Andrey.