Cleaning up the browscap mess

From: Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: Cleaning up the browscap mess
Groups: php.internals php.pecl.dev 
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Guys, given the recent implosion of browscap/get_browser I would like to find a volunteer to clean up this code. See http://bugs.php.net/27438 for the fireworks and http://bugs.php.net/27291 for some background. I would suggest as a first step to pull it out of ext/standard and create a pecl extension for it and second to go through and figure out if we can continue to use the ini parser for this, which I am guessing we can't, so the third task is likely to write a new parser for it. I suppose an interim step could be to write a browscap.ini file sanitizer, but this would be something for the volunteer(s) to decide on. Any volunteers who feel strongly enough about this stuff to work on it? Otherwise let's just drop it altogether. The file this code is meant to parse has clearly evolved and left the code behind over the years. -Rasmus

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