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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What to do with ext/xmlrpc?
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 29.06.2019 at 18:31, Peter Kokot wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 17:57, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wr=
ote:
>>
>> On 28.06.2019 at 17:49, Peter Kokot wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 19:43, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ext/imap should follow the same road.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, if we want to keep this extension, we need to consider the bund=
led
>>>>> library as a fork, maintained by US (and drop support to build using=
 the
>>>>> system library, if present)
>>>>>
>>>>> So, any new volunteer to maintain this extension, will also have to
>>>>> maintain the library.
>>>>
>>>> This looks unlikely, so we shouldn't count on it happening. I think w=
e
>>>> should just move them to PECL and if somebody shows up, we can always
>>>> move it back.
>>>
>>> Hello, sorry for bumping this one. Is the ext/xmlrpc extension also on
>>> the list to be unbundled maybe for PHP-7.4?
>>
>> AFAIK, it isn't.  Sorry for not having pursued this.
>
> Then I can create an RFC to unbundle it from the core and move it
> together with the libxmlrpc library fork into PECL. Having
> unmaintained extensions in the core and marked as experimental for the
> last 18 years is not good I think. Is there enough time to do all this
> until July 22nd (7.4 feature freeze)?

I think it's too late to start an RFC targeting PHP 7.4, since there is
a minimum of two weeks for discussion and two weeks for voting.

=2D-
Christoph M. Becker