Re: official dead pecl extensions
| From: | Christopher Jones | Date: | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:44:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: official dead pecl extensions | ||
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Philip Olson wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> The following PECL extensions have been tagged as "dead" according to the PHP manual,
> and the conservative criteria used includes extensions that lack releases (typically these are
> extensions moved from core to PECL), or perhaps it clearly seems dead/deprecated. Here's the
> list:
>
> classkit, fam, fdf, hw, iisfunc, java, msession, nis, notes, qtdom, session_pgsql, swf, and
> w32api
>
> There are probably other dead [and unmaintained] extensions but who knows, maybe a release from
> 2003 still works?
>
> All suggestions and comments for dealing with dead PECL extensions are encouraged and welcome!
> So far the manual pages remain with a link to the SVN repository of said extensions.
>
> Regards,
> Philip
>
> P.S. I just noticed that java isn't in PECL SVN, so not sure what to think of this yet.
Hi Philip,
What does the "tagging" actually do? http://docs.php.net/manual/en/book.classkit.php
still exists and looks unchanged.
Chris
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