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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:10:56 +0300
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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions
 YasuoOhgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi again,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 29.06.2018 at 16:54, Andrey Andreev wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Readline is the only extension in your list that I would be sad about
>>>> losing. I use it every day, I guess a lot of devs do.
>>>
>>> It's not "losing", per se, as the code doesn't get erased, it just moved
>>> to PECL. All distros can build it from there just as they do now. Then
>>> again, if it's super-important and doesn't have any major issues, we
>>> could keep it (or any other extension) around in "community maintained"
>>> status for a while.
>>
>> If "php -a" doesn't work without ext/readline (and I know it never
>> works for me if I don't install the distro-provided php-readline
>> package), then it is super-important.
>
> It's not about removing readline support for the interactive PHP shell,
> see <https://externals.io/message/102282#102307>.
>

I know it's not about that, but the problem is that currently (or on
7.0.x at least) the interactive shell doesn't work without the
extension.

Cheers,
Andrey.