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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:21:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:17 -0500, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> On 8-Dec-06, at 1:01 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> 
> >> COM:

+1, easy to install from pecl.

> >> mhash:


> >> sockets:
> >>     Un-maintained.

> A good point for 5.2, but given that there is no one to support users  
> using this extension if people start using that extension they  
> potentially leading themselves to a dead-end. Given how far the  
> streams have gone lately I do not believe that there is any interest  
> in maintaining this extension any further.

In my opinion we shouldn't remove these (mhash and sockets) from a minor
release, instead we should mark them as deprecated (using
ZEND_ACC_DEPRECATED) so everybody (who cares) get's the error message
and  can change his code and we can remove it in 5.3/6.0 without users
complaining too much.

johannes