Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38070 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 57302 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2008 08:21:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jun 2008 08:21:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.7 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.7 mail.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.94.239.7] ([82.94.239.7:47970] helo=mail.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6F/A4-25418-B9DA3484 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:21:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m528Lh5O015354; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:21:43 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:21:43 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Pierre Joye cc: internals , Sara Golemon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Drop ext/mhash and add an emulation layer in ext/hash (5.3+), call for help From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Pierre Joye wrote: > While working on the windows ports, I asked Sara about the mhash > status in regard of the new shiny ext/hash. The plan is to remove > ext/hash completely and emulate it in ext/hash to keep the BC. It > could even a configuration flag if one likes to be sure to clean his > code to use only the hash APIs. The mhash extension features some more versions of some algorithms: http://mhash.sourceforge.net/ But why bother changing it? I've not heard of any issues about ext/mhash. regards, Derick