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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What to do with ext/snmp?
To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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From: paresy@gmail.com (Michael Maroszek)

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We have switched to a userland library (https://github.com/FreeDSx/SNMP)
due to crashes when using the internal SNMP extension in ZTS scenarios. It
doesn't really answer your question, but maybe it fits category two, that
usage is not very high or that people chose the pure PHP version.

Michael

Am Do., 29. Aug. 2024 um 19:53 Uhr schrieb Christoph M. Becker <
cmbecker69@gmx.de>:

> Hi all,
>
> it seems to me that we're pulling through ext/snmp without having any
> real expert of the protocol, let alone of the implementation.  The
> extension has no code owner, and according to EXTENSIONS, it has no
> primary maintainer for more than ten years.  Skimming through the commit
> log mostly shows general clean-ups and changes.  And seeing that there
> have only two issues been reported on Github[1], I would conclude that
> either the extension just works as expected, or that it is not used
> much.  A recent doc-bug report[2] makes me believe it's the latter.
>
> Personally, I barely know what SNMP is used for, but have no deeper
> understanding of that protocol, and I can remember that it took me quite
> a while to work out how to even set up a testing environment on Windows
> (without understanding the details).
>
> So the question is: do we have any SNMP experts (or some who want to
> become SNMP experts) around, who would want to take a look at the
> extension and its documentation?
>
> [1]
> <
> https://github.com/php/php-src/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Extension%3A+snmp%22+is%3Aopen
> >
> [2] <https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3690>
>
> Christoph
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">We have switched to a userland library (<a href=3D"https:/=
/github.com/FreeDSx/SNMP">https://github.com/FreeDSx/SNMP</a>) due to crash=
es when using the internal SNMP extension in ZTS scenarios. It doesn&#39;t =
really answer=C2=A0your question, but maybe it fits category two, that usag=
e is not very high or that people chose the pure PHP version.<div><br></div=
><div>Michael</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" cl=
ass=3D"gmail_attr">Am Do., 29. Aug. 2024 um 19:53=C2=A0Uhr schrieb Christop=
h M. Becker &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:cmbecker69@gmx.de">cmbecker69@gmx.de</a>&=
gt;:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px=
 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
it seems to me that we&#39;re pulling through ext/snmp without having any<b=
r>
real expert of the protocol, let alone of the implementation.=C2=A0 The<br>
extension has no code owner, and according to EXTENSIONS, it has no<br>
primary maintainer for more than ten years.=C2=A0 Skimming through the comm=
it<br>
log mostly shows general clean-ups and changes.=C2=A0 And seeing that there=
<br>
have only two issues been reported on Github[1], I would conclude that<br>
either the extension just works as expected, or that it is not used<br>
much.=C2=A0 A recent doc-bug report[2] makes me believe it&#39;s the latter=
.<br>
<br>
Personally, I barely know what SNMP is used for, but have no deeper<br>
understanding of that protocol, and I can remember that it took me quite<br=
>
a while to work out how to even set up a testing environment on Windows<br>
(without understanding the details).<br>
<br>
So the question is: do we have any SNMP experts (or some who want to<br>
become SNMP experts) around, who would want to take a look at the<br>
extension and its documentation?<br>
<br>
[1]<br>
&lt;<a href=3D"https://github.com/php/php-src/issues?q=3Dis%3Aissue+label%3=
A%22Extension%3A+snmp%22+is%3Aopen" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">ht=
tps://github.com/php/php-src/issues?q=3Dis%3Aissue+label%3A%22Extension%3A+=
snmp%22+is%3Aopen</a>&gt;<br>
[2] &lt;<a href=3D"https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3690" rel=3D"norefe=
rrer" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3690</a>&gt;<b=
r>
<br>
Christoph<br>
</blockquote></div>

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