Re: Unmaintained Extensions moved out of core

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Joey Smith<joey@joeysmith.com> wrote: > It sounds like there were a few extensions which were moved out of > the core and into PECL that do not have maintainers, and thus have > basically disappeared entirely. I don't currently have karmar in > the PECL tree(s), but would be more than glad to take over these > extensions enough to: > > 1) See if they compile against 5.3.0 It makes little sense to me to spend time on dead extensions, orphaned extensions but still having users could get some love, obviously. > 2) If they fail to compile and... >         a. I can fix them, get them fixed and published in PECL >         b. I cannot fix them, try and find a maintainer for them, >                or get them marked as deprecated. > > 3) If they pass (1), get releases built and the extensions > registered on the PECL site so they are available for download. We should mark 2a and 3 as unmaintained/superseded/dead or orphaned. Such message can be seen in the domxml package (see below). > From a quick grep on the docs tree combined with poking around > on pecl.php.net, it looks like I'd need to look at some subset > of the following extensions: > > ingres-ii > ifx > dbase > fbsql > nis > swf > > Also, I think the following extensions should probably be > marked officially "DEPRECATED" - there are some "Notes" in > the book.xml files for them, but I'd like to make it more > consistent and clear that they're obsoleted by newer code, > especially since PHP4 is now more than a year past its official > "end of life". > xslt > domxml > qtdom We already have messages for them in the package homepage, see http://pecl.php.net/package/domxml for an example. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org