Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38232
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain googlemail.com designates 72.14.220.153 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Status: bad
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
        h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to
         :mime-version:content-type:references;
        b=NEkLV1ictqLlhmFOumOapsLnO49S9+n8KgU9T9JmDE9U335SsPgNyRZSjACVkji/JB
         HxMV7QcSIfB3olOUG2Ul1wqbIhTh0Cn+mU64hB47ahli4lSZw08Xag5JEym9g+aGQfGY
         IwrvpNJtVvgYHCABqez2fWN40YhFXkXTlGAL8=
Message-ID: <10845a340806141745y7d3826a2w6c6dea009b030baf@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:45:40 +0100
Reply-To: RQuadling@GoogleMail.com
To: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
Cc: "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com>, 
	"Lukas Kahwe Smith" <mls@pooteeweet.org>, 
	internals <internals@lists.php.net>
In-Reply-To: <4853E716.9040300@lerdorf.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
	boundary="----=_Part_1586_549072.1213490740770"
References: <fe05d1540806120731h2640d468he88d116200899c87@mail.gmail.com>
	 <0497E5D4-1F92-4463-B98D-BE6B877B36B7@pooteeweet.org>
	 <fe05d1540806140724u7a4e50c4r77aebb9d68ff0d4d@mail.gmail.com>
	 <6C9C74CD-6271-44BD-B285-2B2BA66C0C56@pooteeweet.org>
	 <fe05d1540806140734y4eb5a89bxc4cab0d5e8fa9814@mail.gmail.com>
	 <4853E716.9040300@lerdorf.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop
From: rquadling@googlemail.com ("Richard Quadling")

------=_Part_1586_549072.1213490740770
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

2008/6/14 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>:

> Pierre Joye wrote:
>
>> Hi Lukas,
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>
>> 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.
>

I try!

And as I only use MSSQL, we should drop mySQL.



> 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
>
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>


-- 
-----
Richard Quadling
Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"

------=_Part_1586_549072.1213490740770--