RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE][RESULT] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions

Hi, > De : Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] > > So we do not want to kill them because they are still used (but dead). > But we may come with some wrapper to replace almost all the features > provided by the dead libs? At least for mcrypt, good luck to anyone > willing to do that for imap ;). It may be naive but, for imap, what about writing a wrapper between the imap functions and the Horde/Imap_Client lib, as it works well and is at least as fast as the original C extension. We can embed the lib and the wrapper in a PHP extension (reviving the idea of embedding PHP code in an extension) and rename every public symbols to keep them private (they would not be usable from user code). This would probably be much easier than rewriting the imap extension using libcurl or another imap C lib. Anyway, that's just an idea as I don't know yet if the Horde library provides every features we need. It is distributed under 'LGPL version 2.1', would it allow to embed it in a PHP extension ? So, please tell me if it's worth going a little further. Cheers François