Well, it does not consume any resources simply because no one is maintaining it ;-). How really different things would be if it were in
I meant runtime resources, not developer resources. Like memory, CPU, etc :)
pecl? I mean afaik COM is not enabled by default on win32, so you still need to enable it manually. So, the only extra step for people who want
AFAIK it's not the case. In my builds COM is always enabled and I didn't do anything special. And PECL extension means "no support by standard PHP, you need to do additional effort to get it", which is not good IMHO. COM is pretty basic functionality on Windows.
A good point for 5.2, but given that there is no one to support users using this extension if people start using that extension they potentially leading themselves to a dead-end. Given how far the streams
We can have notice to that effect in the manual, so that people starting using it (who presumably read the manual before they start writing the code :) would know to move to streams. My concern is not new users but existing code.
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