Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26861 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52497 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Dec 2006 06:35:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52482 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2006 06:35:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 2006 06:35:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain l-i-e.com from 67.139.134.202 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from [67.139.134.202] ([67.139.134.202:2662] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 13/10-50161-FE85A754 for ; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:34:58 -0500 Received: (qmail 58782 invoked by uid 98); 9 Dec 2006 06:34:28 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.4/2304. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.072566 secs); 09 Dec 2006 06:34:28 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ceo@l-i-e.com via o2.hostbaby.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.072566 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 2006 06:34:28 -0000 Received: from 209.254.223.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:34:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3214.209.254.223.2.1165646068.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <3B40503A-75F6-41EC-BFCF-56D777501FA5@prohost.org> References: <3B40503A-75F6-41EC-BFCF-56D777501FA5@prohost.org> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:34:28 -0600 (CST) To: "Ilia Alshanetsky" Cc: "PHP internals" Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Fri, December 8, 2006 10:03 am, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > COM: > Un-maintained at this time and has a fairly serious number of bugs > (26 by latest count, many of which are crashes) > Only usable to Win32 users, which I think we all admit are a > minority and can always download readily available binaries from > pec4win. Since most of them don't compile the extension from source > anyway there is IMHO little reason to bundle the sources with every > php package. > Moving it to PECL will allow for an independent release cycle, which > may allow for faster fix deployment etc... > I hoping the move will encourage people and/or companies to start > maintaining the extension. +1, so long as the php_com.dll or whatever is readily available somewhere. > mhash: > Everything this extension that relies on an external lib to do, is > already done by hash extension that is enabled by default and > requires no external libs. There is simply no reason to keep it > around. +1 > sockets: > Un-maintained. > Majority of what it can do can already by done via streams in a much > more consistent and stable fashion. This one maks me nervous... Seems like this would get used a fair amount for legacy code to run custom web app/server stuff... I guess anybody smart enough to do that and make it work ought to be able to find/install a PECL extension, though, eh? +0.8 -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?