Re: [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup

On Aug 15, 2016 3:17 PM, "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" <kalle@php.net> wrote: > > Hi Stas > > 2016-08-15 7:53 GMT+02:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>: > > Hi! > > > > I'd like to propose an RFC to deal with extensions that currently have > > no maintainer: > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions > > enchant: > I thought Pierre maintained enchant? Despite it haven't had much real > activity for years Well there are not much changes in the api. And it works. So -1 here. > gettext > WordPress can optionally use gettext for some of their po/mo files, > I'm not entirely sure how this is today[1], but it might be worth > taking into consideration if there are other users. Here as much as I do not like it. I have to oppose it. That is a major breakage (no, pecl is not the same). > pdo_dblib > I have seen a few PRs here and there recently from two different guys, > perhaps one of them would be interested in maintaining this as there > this is the only way to connect to MSSQL from PHP (if you dislike > odbc) as of PHP7, with the removal of ext/mssql. > > pdo_oci > I have heard that maybe Oracle was going to take over this one, but it > seems fairly inactive, maybe this thread can help reach out to them. > > readline > If removed, I guess this won't affect sapi/cli? > > pspell > Pspell should probably have been deprecated after enchant was added to > the core in 5.3 I think it was, we did remove aspell infavor but > pspell still remained for some reason and I think it should go too. > > sysvmsg / sysvshm / sysvsem > We do indeed only have a category for semaphores. As a Windows guy, I > cannot really make use of them, so I will wait and hear some feedback > on this. > > > tokenizer > Like you mentioned, I think this should be kept in the core and > possibly maintained as a part of the parser. I do write some > development tools every now and then and make use of this amazing > extension and will only want it to be kept. > > > All in all, I think it is remarkable that we have 3 PDO extensions > here, perhaps it will be time to reivist the whole PDO saga, but that > is for another topic I guess > > > [1] > https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/search?l=php&q=gettext&utf8=✓ > > -- > regards, > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > kalle@php.net