Re: Introduction and new PHP extension: textconv

Hello, On Tue, 03 May 2011 11:54:09 +0200 Miroslav Kubelík <koubel@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, 03 May 2011 11:33:00 +0200, Antony Dovgal > <tony@daylessday.org> wrote: > > > Hello Hiroyuki! > > > > On 04/28/2011 11:29 AM, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> My name is Hiroyuki Yamamoto. I live in Japan, and am working for > >> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan (http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php). > >> > >> I am a developer of Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/), > >> which is an open source e-mail client. > > > > Thank you for Sylpheed, I've been using it for many years! Thanks :) > >> LibTextConv is a commercial software which SRA OSS, Inc. Japan > >> sells. At this point, it is sold only in Japan. > > > > This is kind of weird. > > Why do you want to put in PECL an extension that depends on a > > proprietary library most of the people can't even buy? > > You can just ship the extension along with your library in this > > case. I personally don't see much point in publishing it here - > > nobody will be able to use it anyway. > > I agree. Public PHP pecl repository is useful only for public > available 3rd party libs. We first thought it might become sort of promotion to have our library in PECL. > If you are the vendor of commercial non-public library, you can still > make the final > package with the extension source available on any public URL. > Package will be ready > for "pecl install ..." command for users of your library. We thought it was okay to have a commercial library in PECL because there were already Oracle, DB2 and other interfaces to commercial products. Maybe this is not the case becase they also made their interface library available in public, but libtextconv library will not (only stub). -- Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <yamamoto@sraoss.co.jp> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan http://www.sraoss.co.jp/