Re: pecl sqlite

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > 2011/11/16 Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org>: > > > We need to make pecl/sqlite work with 5.4, as currently it does not. > > Why? We moved it out because it is not maintained anymore. As I agree > that the concept of "move to pecl" for dead extensions is a bad idea, > inciting users to continue to use with 5.4 instead of migrate their > code to sqlite3 is not a good thing. > > > I forget the details (and the related patch) but did work on one with > > Johannes many months ago. The last step (which failed) was to get > > pdo_sqlite2 to work with the shared PECL variant, IIRC. Then, make a > > release. > > It can be applied to svn. I suppose we should add a note as well in > the documentation about this move. > > > Moving something to PECL should require that the PECL extension work with > > the distribution that it was [re]moved from. Otherwise, it was not moved. > > I disagree, it should work with the distro where it was still present. > If we stop to support something with a given release, there is no > point to give the wrong message to our users. > > However, if someone feels like it is worth maintaining this dead > library binding and keep alive for 5.4+, he can indeed go ahead, but > unless we have such a person, I don't think we should release it or do > anything else for this extension and 5.4. I think that you are both right. Either we shouldn't call it "moving it into pecl"(but dropping support or something) or it should work with that version which introduced the move. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu