Re: Orphan package: Net_IDNA

till wrote:

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Stefan Neufeind, PEAR < pear.neufeind@speedpartner.de> wrote:

Daniel O'Connor wrote:

See http://pear.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=376&cid=16 and http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[0]=Net_IDNA<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name%5B0%5D=Net_IDNA>

    For the number of users, the number of bugs here is high.

Is anyone willing to step up and help contribute to this package? I can no longer install it from pearweb due to the invalid package xml - which kind of sucks.

Hi, I don't intend to officially take it. However I've just talked that over with Markus Nix, and I'll be happy to integrate some of the patches as well as the latest version (release after 0.7.1) into a new maintenance-release shortly. I'll also see to put that into PEAR cvs. However a new helper for the package for the long run still sounds like a good idea ...

Hi, Given that someone finally managed to contact one of the leads ... They don't intend on maintaining it anymore ? Just outside PEAR ? - Helgi

@Stefan If you guys need help, I can fix some bugs as well.

Fixed all for the moment. New release is out. But feel free to test and open new bugs :-)

Permanently, I'd rather to Net_IDNA2.

While that generally _might_ be an idea (php5-only, ...) the current package should be maintained anyhow imho. And there are already both php4 and php5-versions inside the lib. They get autoloaded based upon the php-version used. Don't think that is too nice, but it works, and has been working like this for a while now. So imho reinventing the wheel (aka API) should then come up with something "new". If there are no real benefits of creating a v2, why branch?

Btw, please reply to my Validate_DE email from last month or so. ;-)

Will do. Regards, Stefan