Re: alpha3 or forever hold your peace

Pierre Joye napsal(a):

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle.php@gmail.com> wrote:

2008/11/10 Jaroslav Hanslík <konference@kukulich.net>:

Pierre Joye napsal(a):

php_pspell.dll php_snmp.dll

snmp and pspell are likely to do not be present in the next release and maybe not in the final release (windows only). The underlying libraries are not portable enough to be used on windows and the versions used before have critical issues (security or crashes).

Would it be better to have these extension with some issues (current state) than not to have them at all?

As from what I could understand from Pierre, then SNMP is dead on Windows and have been for a very long time (for example it doesn't even compile). I don't remember about pspell, but I think it would make more sense to maybe include something like enchant for spelling though.

Enchant works but not using pspell (for the same reason than ext/pspell does not), it works with almost any other spelling system, on all platforms. But that's not the problem neither the solution as enchant is not part of the core.

Could I download exchant extension for Windows anywhere?

pspell and netsmnp libraries are not portable and can't be built on windows. We don't feel like releasing packages with critical security issues is a good thing to do. If we do not find a solution by the time of 5.3-final, we can always provide an extra package with these packages but with a (very) strong warning about using them in production environment. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org

Regards, Jaroslav Hanslík