Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26865 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87490 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Dec 2006 09:42:46 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87475 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2006 09:42:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 2006 09:42:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=kingwez@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=good Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=kingwez@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 64.233.182.187 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: kingwez@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.182.187 nf-out-0910.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.233.182.187] ([64.233.182.187:64026] helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 55/F3-50161-3F48A754 for ; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:42:46 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l35so1494070nfa for ; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:42:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dAj1+S9KxDep/FDCzca2zkwYUvOj7l/+2cCtUgMv3F2FPR5B5pruqTrH384GWGhvQ90ugIvBp30WMBtRPvfbjHVxGUVkYcS+sBjsXQxoch6JRdI5IsdD0Viv/BgaNsSeOdqOmj8L+5XycW5ocXMTpIsP0ujloLAVulWPfpY5qyc= Received: by 10.82.167.5 with SMTP id p5mr691059bue.1165657327927; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:42:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.177.9 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 01:42:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4e89b4260612090142s306c4e65tc12624bbe9870201@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:42:07 -0500 To: "Ilia Alshanetsky" Cc: "PHP internals" In-Reply-To: <3B40503A-75F6-41EC-BFCF-56D777501FA5@prohost.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3B40503A-75F6-41EC-BFCF-56D777501FA5@prohost.org> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving COM, Socket & mhash to PECL From: kingwez@gmail.com ("Wez Furlong") On 12/8/06, 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) But aside from those problems (which I suspect are mostly duplicates), it works fine for the majority of users. As I told you on IRC, I am not aware of it being critically flawed to the point where it needs to be removed. > 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. I also tried to convey that COM is an essential core technology on Windows. Removing it is a very bad idea. It's a bit like suggesting that we make the exec family of functions an optional download. In theory, it sounds like a great idea, in practice, it's a pain in the ass and will leave people wondering what you were smoking :-) In summary: > COM -1 > mhash: > sockets: +1 --Wez.