Re: libidn2 extension for php

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Bob Majdak Jr <bob@opsat.net> wrote: > On Nov 4, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> About your extension, as we won't prevent you to include it (there is >> no policy to prevent duplicated features) > > I remember a clear case a few weeks ago where there was a dispute about > a new GeoIP extension that was easier and OOP, and it got shunted using > that very reason to keep it out, almost as in an anti-competitive move you > would expect from large corporations. > > *cough* We never said you could not but that it is way better to merge the two as there is zero difference in the core features but the OO addition and some flexibility. It would have been like forking an extension to add one function. </cough>. What you may call shut down and anti competitive, I call it strong suggestions and advice. Btw, what's the status on the merge of your patches? Any progress? -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org