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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha3 or forever hold your peace
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 10.11.2008, at 16:06, Pierre Joye wrote:

> 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 =20
>>> (current state)
>>> 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 =20=

>> 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.

Should we examine if we want to make enchant part of core? I guess you =20=

are one of the maintainers, so the prime candidate to tell us if you =20
think its ready ..

> 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.


I agree.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org