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Subject: Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] The Untouchables
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox")

Hi Pierre,

> and about Attic, the idea behind a graveyard was about leaving the
> code around for study purposes.

Code in the attic can be read online but can't be checked out, so I take 
your point about 'study purposes'. I'd use siberia for things like axis2, 
where the project is live and hosted elsewhere but the original code is 
still in PECL. Or classkit, which was superceded by runkit but which still 
works. Marcus' demoext could go into siberia too - it's literally just a 
demo and may be useful to some, but it shouldn't really be part of a PECL 
checkout.

>>  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.

Nah, I'll do the polite thing and send out emails today. We can file bugs 
when people don't comply _after_ the request (and after we have something 
with clear rules we can link to!).

>>  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.

I thought that at first too, but Christopher Jones faced me off-list with 
some scenarios I hadn't considered. It's more complex than we'd allowed 
because a single PECL extension can be symlinked to more than one PHP 
branch - we need to look into this more.

> Let make it clean and readable and then see
> how it can be improved.

OK, but I need to spend some time on 'real work', so can I leave this with 
you for now?

- Steph