Re: Regarding the ext/curl extension

Guys, I don't think battling helps anyone. I thought Daniel and myself had come to an (admittedly vague) agreement last week that a good way to approach this might be by fixing the php.net docs to give all the PHP-related info currently held on the libcurl site, and then ditch that page on the libcurl site and just link to the downloads rather than the libcurl project homepage. As you might gather from that, I do agree with Daniel that the current setup with ext/curl is utterly confusing for PHP users. I don't really care whose fault it is, it just needs fixing. Gwynne and myself have been talking under cover, and it seems we both are keen to do something with this. She has other projects outstanding at present (mainly the phpdoc build system) and I have a bunch of commitments to fulfill before I head off on holiday. For both of us, September's the first sane attack date when it comes to ext/curl. There's also a bit more to this than straightforward documentation. I think I mentioned already. Can we please drop this now until we both have space to work on it? After all, the status quo didn't arrive overnight. Cheers, - Steph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net> To: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel@haxx.se> Cc: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would accomplish.

Then I didn't make myself clear. The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something with a name that doesn't confuse them. If the binding would be called 'mombamoolo', they would search for that and they would certainly not be confused by products or projects called curl or libcurl (even if they would know that mombamoolo uses libcurl).

This has another side as well. If it was called mombamoolo then how would people know that PHP is actually providing a wrapper for curl? There have been some examples of this in the past "sattelite" and "universe" where both extensions around corba for example- and if you didn't know you'd have no idea where to look for. So I'd say that with picking a different name you'd confuse people. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php