Re: [RFC] [VOTE] pecl_http

On 28/01/2015 13:17, Michael Wallner wrote:

Discussion has been very low on this topic since it was proposed on August 19th, so I just opened the vote on the RFC whether to add pecl_http to the core. The vote will be open until about 12:00 UTC on Friday, February 6th. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pecl_http#vote

Disclaimer: I'm not going to discuss the merits of the extension itself. I've never used it but I'm sure it's perfectly doing its job. As Nikita mentions, PSR-7 is under way and currently gaining some traction. At the moment the PSR-7 interfaces are designed to be immutable, although I that's still open for debate. If the RFC passes, we'd be taking a fairly strong position and pushing the current pecl_http implementation as a de-facto standard. Sure, PHP-FIG would still be free to come up with their own standard, but it just doesn't seem much fair to me. Also, we're planning to move extensions from core to pecl, for example ext/mysql which I is still widely used by many applications, despite its known shortcomings. TBH, I don't see many reasons why a pecl extension should be moved to core. That's basically why I voted no earlier today. Cheers -- Matteo Beccati Development & Consulting - http://www.beccati.com/