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Subject: Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] The Untouchables
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Steph Fox <steph@zend.com> wrote:
> > Siberia was meant for dead module with no potential to come back to
>  > live.
>
>  Not in my eyes. There's only a problem with CVS Attic if you want to bring
>  something back to life, so if there's no potential for that - why not use
>  it?

Some archive:

http://news.php.net/php.pecl.dev/5283 (and the other posts around it).

and about Attic, the idea behind a graveyard was about leaving the
code around for study purposes.

>  > I can't see how these two can live again as they are under GPL,
>  > unless the original authors agree to relicense them.
>
>  Not happening. a) both extensions wrap/interface GPL'd libraries and b) the
>  muscat library no longer exists.

So they are dead cows.


>  > That reminds me that I have to update the RFC according to our discussions
>  > :P
>
>  I'd call the 'PECL versioning' one a done deal at this stage, pretty much -
>  it just needs a write-up on pecl.php.net for newcomers to refer to, and a
>  request for the final handful of extensions to comply.

Filling a bug may be enough.


>  We probably need a whole new RFC for core module versioning. Want to kick it
>  off?

I would not like to have different docs explaining the same thing It
will be very confusing. We already covered almost every problem for
core or pecl extensions. Let make it clean and readable and then see
how it can be improved.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre
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