Re: Is XML_RPC2 Maintained?
| From: | Arnaud Limbourg | Date: | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:43:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is XML_RPC2 Maintained? | ||
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Alan Langford wrote:
> This package has been Alpha since March; there are some minor open bugs,
> including some patches (some of them not so good); and some fairly
> serious ones. In particular there is "XML_RPC2 CVS directory structure
> doesn't respect the PEAR standard", which seems to have been submitted
> by one of the listed maintainers -- late last year.
>
> I have been working on extending the package to support additional
> backends and I have discovered that the current version doesn't pass its
> own QA tests.
>
> There are also some TODO's that are awaiting improved stability from
> simplexml, and my guess is that in the last seven months some of these
> issues have been addressed. Fixing these issues will improve performance.
>
> I can submit a patch to fix the minor issues, but I'm not sure if anyone
> will be listening. My planned extensions are more extensive and although
> they don't break BC, I'm sure anyone responsible for the package will
> have something to say about them.
>
> I'm willing to adopt this package if nobody is maintaining it. I have a
> PEAR account but I don't think it's got CVS karma.
Let's see what Sergio says. With no answer in the next week I'll name
you lead and request karma.
Arnaud.