Re: [RFC][VOTE] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions

Hi, On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> properly after the voting phase the >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis_and_exts >> moves to the >> voting. Each item is voted separately. The voting ends on 2015-02-09 at >> 21:00 CET. >> >> Regards >> >> Anatol >> > > I get the motivation to drop dead SAPIs or extensions that require > unmaintained libraries. > > However this list also contains a number of exts like ext/interbase where > people have explicitly stated in the discussion that the extension is still > supported and will be ported to PHP 7. Why do we vote to remove them? Or > did I misunderstand something? > > Nikita I'd like to ask the same thing about oci8 and pdo_oci. I haven't dealt with Oracle in awhile now, but last time I had to - it was still in PECL, so ... why and where would it get removed from? Cheers, Andrey.