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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:06:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha3 or forever hold your peace
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen
<kalle.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/10 Jaroslav Hansl=EDk <konference@kukulich.net>:
>> Pierre Joye napsal(a):
>>
>>>> php_pspell.dll
>>>> php_snmp.dll
>>>
>>> snmp and pspell are likely to do not be present in the next release
>>> and maybe not in the final release (windows only). The underlying
>>> libraries are not portable enough to be used on windows and the
>>> versions used before have critical issues (security or crashes).
>>
>>
>> Would it be better to have these extension with some issues (current sta=
te)
>> than not to have them at all?
>
> As from what I could understand from Pierre, then SNMP is dead on
> Windows and have been for a very long time (for example it doesn't
> even compile).
>
> I don't remember about pspell, but I think it would make more sense to
> maybe include something like enchant for spelling though.

Enchant works but not using pspell (for the same reason than
ext/pspell does not), it works with almost any other spelling system,
on all platforms. But that's not the problem neither the solution as
enchant is not part of the core.

pspell and netsmnp libraries are not portable and can't be built on
windows. We don't feel like releasing packages with critical security
issues is a good thing to do. If we do not find a solution by the time
of 5.3-final, we can always provide an extra package with these
packages but with a (very) strong warning about using them in
production environment.

Cheers,
--
Pierre
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