Re: Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL

On 12/8/06, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org> wrote:

COM:

       Un-maintained at this time and has a fairly serious number of bugs

(26 by latest count, many of which are crashes)

But aside from those problems (which I suspect are mostly duplicates), it works fine for the majority of users. As I told you on IRC, I am not aware of it being critically flawed to the point where it needs to be removed.

       Only usable to Win32 users, which I think we all admit are a

minority and can always download readily available binaries from pec4win. Since most of them don't compile the extension from source anyway there is IMHO little reason to bundle the sources with every php package.

I also tried to convey that COM is an essential core technology on Windows. Removing it is a very bad idea. It's a bit like suggesting that we make the exec family of functions an optional download. In theory, it sounds like a great idea, in practice, it's a pain in the ass and will leave people wondering what you were smoking :-) In summary:

COM -1

mhash: sockets: +1

--Wez.