Re: Introduction and new PHP extension: textconv

hello, On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> wrote: > Hello, >> >> 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. That's not the goal of PECL to promote proprietary libraries. However it is perfectly fine to have this extension in pecl. We have decided recently to accept binding for commercial libraries. But I would strongly suggest to provide demo versions, right now there are simply no way to test it. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org