Re: extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop

hi, On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:31 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: >> * Extension being deleted (not removed, a "cvs rm" will be done) >> >> mhash, no impact as we provide a compatibility layer via ext/hash >> (Thanks to Scott) > > We should keep this somewhere in Siberia like we did with other > extensions we removed. (PHP 4 XML stuff for instance) I was not clear, sorry. There is no point to keep it in siberia as the whole user API will still be available. You can see this move as a dependency removal. libmcrypt is not used anymore and the ext/mhash functions will be implemented using ext/hash, in ext/hash. >> * Extension looking for love (if noone raises the hand, they will end >> in PECL too) >> >> - ncurses >> I can help here for the windows port and pdcurses support on unix and >> windows. Hartmurt agreed for the move it to pecl for 5.3. > > hm, I thought this was already done, go for it. It will be done shortly. >> - smnp >> nice ext, any ISP out there willing to help? I can help for the windows support > > Last time I checked it worked nicely and I know other user which have no > problems either, so I guess there's not much maintenance needed. The > only thing I see is implementing new parameter parsing API. > > So I don't see a reason to move it to PECL. But who knows which minimum snmp version should be supported (I say should not could)? What can I change on windows to support a decent snmp version (don't look at the version we used now :)? No one maintains it, the user base is relatively small (very small even). We have moved working extensions to pecl in the past because they were not maintained (and that's a very good reason). If you feel like you can help to maintain it, please do it. As I said earlier, I can give a hand to improve it and make it work smoothly on windows but I can't do it alone. >> Can be moved PECL >> - interbase >> - fpdf >> - fbsql >> - sybase and sybase_ct > > Moving fpdf shouldn't be a problem, for the others I can't really judge, > I don't know a user of these, but that's me. I'd to wait a couple of days but I think there is no issue to move them. -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org