Re: What to do with ext/xmlrpc?

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 6:28 AM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > The problem with ext/xmlrpc is that it relies on libxmlrpc-epi[1], which > looks abandoned. Even worse, we're bundling a modified 0.51[2], while > the latest version is 0.54.1[3]. This is exacerbated by the fact that > the system library is usually build against libexpat, but the bundled > library is likely to be build against libxml2 using our compat layer. > > We most recently fixed two security issues[4], but it is likely not > clear whether these may affect latest system libraries as well, and > there are more issues. > > So unless a maintainer steps forward, it might be best to deprecate > and/or unbundle ext/xmlrpc. > > IMO, xmlrpc is one of those extensions which could trivially be re-implemented as pure PHP code. It would depend on ext/dom or similar for serde, but everything else is just business logic that can be lifted out of the runtime and probably made WAY better. In fact, a quick google says something in that spirit already exits: https://packagist.org/packages/phpxmlrpc/phpxmlrpc I don't think we need to put energy into finding maintainers for extensions which don't need to exist. Send it to Siberia, afaic. -Sara