Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38214 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40834 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2008 15:43:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2008 15:43:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rasmus@lerdorf.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rasmus@lerdorf.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lerdorf.com from 204.11.219.139 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 mail.lerdorf.com Received: from [204.11.219.139] ([204.11.219.139:40874] helo=mail.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FB/46-06776-B17E3584 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:43:23 -0400 Received: from [192.168.200.148] (c-24-6-219-206.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.219.206]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.lerdorf.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP id m5EFhI7A029097; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:43:18 -0700 Message-ID: <4853E716.9040300@lerdorf.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:43:18 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Joye CC: Lukas Kahwe Smith , internals References: <0497E5D4-1F92-4463-B98D-BE6B877B36B7@pooteeweet.org> <6C9C74CD-6271-44BD-B285-2B2BA66C0C56@pooteeweet.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.lerdorf.com [204.11.219.139]); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Pierre Joye wrote: > Hi Lukas, > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > >> These extension seem widely used enough that we have to make it an effort to >> support them. > > If it is so widely used, why noone complains about this removal? Why > there is nobody taking care of the bugs or sending patches? I don't think this argument works very well. If we were to apply that in general terms, we should probably drop Windows support completely because there are pretty much no Windows users taking care of bugs, nor sending patches. There are a couple, I don't want to make their contributions seem insignificant, but the ratio of users to contributors is terrible for the Windows platform. For something like the SNMP extension, it works ok. SNMP isn't exciting in any way. I did some work on it so it got to the point where it was useful to me, and there have been a couple of requests over the years to extend it, but I think for most people it does all it needs to do. -Rasmus