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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Den l=C3=B8r. 23. mar. 2019 kl. 22.59 skrev Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.u=
k>:
> So is there anything else which is required to bring the extension up to
> date? There is nothing above that prevents the extension doing it's job
> for the vast majority of users and even the suggestion that it is
> unusable due to Bug 72175 does not stand up to scrutiny and can now be
> fixed in 7.3 and 7.2 anyway ...

I updated the RFC with a section earlier to list some of the issues
the extension currently has. Like Joe said in the other thread, it
does bad bad things in ZTS among some of the serious issues. Even if
these things are fixed, we do not have a guarantee to have someone who
is capable of dealing with the issues at hand in the future, nor do I
see fixing bug#72175 as a reason to halt this RFC.

Like I have expressed to people who has mailed me off list (which is
inappropriate) that the extension can be taken over by anyone who
wants to from the relevant community, it just will not be distributed
by default with PHP. In fact if the extension is released on PECL, it
gives the relevant community more freedom to deal with the extension
as they deem fit and does not have the strict requirements as
extensions in the Core has. Sources and binaries are still available
with the PECL interface.

--=20
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net