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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 22:49:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC Weakrefs
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 03.02.2019 at 20:05, Peter Kokot wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 at 20:00, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On a side note, at what point do we remove stuff from the manual/pecl, the
>> weakref is extension is dead, can't work with current versions of PHP, and
>> there was never a stable release ?
>>
>> I'm not even sure we have a mechanism to delete stuff from pecl ... there's
>> probably quite a lot of junk on there ...
> 
> Since PECL extensions is one whole compilation of extensions working
> "together" and not falling into conflicts with names and similar
> issues, PECL admins can simply set the package as "superseded by"
> another package. For example:
> https://pecl.php.net/package/date_time
> 
> If another "weakref" PHP extension will be developed elsewhere,
> different naming can be picked for PECL or if that extension will
> return to development, different approaches should be done probably
> for it...

Not sure about removal from the PHP manual.  This may never have
happened before (except for PECL/idn which conflicted with ext/intl).
Might be better to discuss this on the doc mailing list.

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Christoph M. Becker