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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:51:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:31 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote:
> * Extension being deleted (not removed, a "cvs rm" will be done)
> 
>    mhash, no impact as we provide a compatibility layer via ext/hash
> (Thanks to Scott)

We should keep this somewhere in Siberia like we did with other
extensions we removed. (PHP 4 XML stuff for instance)

> * Extension looking for love (if noone raises the hand, they will end
> in PECL too)
> 
>  -  ncurses
>  I can help here for the windows port and pdcurses support on unix and
> windows. Hartmurt agreed for the move it to pecl for 5.3.

hm, I thought this was already done, go for it.

>  - smnp
>  nice ext, any ISP out there willing to help? I can help for the windows support

Last time I checked it worked nicely and I know other user which have no
problems either, so I guess there's not much maintenance needed. The
only thing I see is implementing new parameter parsing API.

So I don't see a reason to move it to PECL.

> Can be moved PECL
> - interbase
> - fpdf
> - fbsql
> - sybase and sybase_ct

Moving fpdf shouldn't be a problem, for the others I can't really judge,
I don't know a user of these, but that's me.

johannes