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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:18:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

At 21:51 08/12/2006, Derick Rethans wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>
> > This is an exploratory e-mail,  so don't panic just yet :-). I am 
> thinking of
> > moving the COM, mhash and socket extensions to PECL in 5.2 and 6.0 releases
> > and was hoping to hear for & against arguments.
> > The reason for the making this move are as follows:
> >
> > COM:
>
>-1, but we need somebody to have a look at the issues there.
>
> > mhash:
>
>+1
>
> > sockets:
>
>-1 in 5.x, +1 in 6.0 as there are still many people who use this stuff.
>Also we need to make sure that all the stuff done by ext/socket can also
>be done by the streams in some way.

Same as Derick and Stas.

Zeev