Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 20/06/18 05:46, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I would like to open the vote for the RFC about cleaning up the > >> unmaintained extensions: > >> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions > >> > >> <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions> > >> > >> The vote ends 2018-06-26 23:59 PDT. > >> > >> > >> Just to be sure consequence of "readline" removal. > >> > >> With CLI, "php -a" and "history" works without readline? > >> Does it work as dynamically loaded module? > > > > CLI can still use readline library. This would be about readline PHP > > extension. > > > > Actually, readline support in "php -a" is part of the extension. The > extension hooks the SAPI module. See PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION(cli_readline) > in readline_cli.c. > > 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. > readline has license issue. I miss it but I wouldn't object for removing it. Let's use libedit for CLI by default and always. Issue may be who is going to do this. If nobody volunteers, I may do this. -- Yasuo Ohgaki