Re: Re: cvs: php-src(PHP_5_3) /ext/ming config.m4 ming.c

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 14:31, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Antony Dovgal <tony@daylessday.org> wrote: >> On 28.07.2008 14:55, Pierre Joye wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 0.4rc1. Eitherway, if 0.4 is not coming out during alpha1 and no support >>>>> for 0.3 is available I fear we have to move ming to PECL. >>>> >>>> Agree, the extension is quite rarely used and it makes sense to move it >>>> to >>>> PECL. >>> >>> I asked that already a while back and we disagreed as it works well. >> >> It's not about its quality or status (or did you mean that all PECL >> extensions don't work well?). >> This extension is rarely used and its release cycle depends on libming >> releases, which makes me think that moving it to PECL isn't that bad idea. >> >>> Frank's plan is to first add 0.4 support and then allows to build >>> against 0.3 (before 5.3RC or alpha2). Ming 0.4 is about to be released >>> (if you follow ming development list). > > It happens once for 5.3, which is important enough to get major new features. > > I don't care if we move it or not, but as we agreed to do not move it > out a couple of weeks ago, it would be bad to do it now that the > changes are getting done. As I recall the discussion then lot of people wanted it removed, but few did not. Those few however where enough to keep it core because "it works fine", but there was no *agreement*. -Hannes