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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:39:45 -0700
To: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundling "modern" extensions
From: olivier.hill@gmail.com (Olivier Hill)

Could you open a bug for GeoIP? Being aware of bugs helps more than bitching=
 around.=20

Thanks

Olivier (iPhone)

Le 2011-06-05 =C3=A0 04:37, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> a =C3=A9c=
rit :

> Am 05.06.2011 12:57, schrieb Pierre Joye:
>=20
>> The last point is that pecl allows a much more flexible release
>> management than the core will even do.=20
>=20
> in theory
>=20
>> So instead of doing some marketing/communication actions by bundling some=
=20
>> known extensions, we should better promote pecl better.=20
>=20
> not promote - MAINTAIN it better!
> in fact most of PECL-extensions are a lucky game since
> linux distributors has to find workarounds for rarely
> maintained extensions and you can not be sure that
> a extension can be compiled after a update of php
> or some system-library and only if you have luck
> a maintainer answers on a bug-report
> _____________________
>=20
> http://pecl.php.net/package/GDChart
> dead, no longer maintained and it needed a message to this list to
> get this confirmed by Ilia Alshanetsky, WTF - why is there no big
> red hint "DO NOT USE IT" until now?
>=20
> http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip - stable 2009-03-11
> what about try if this works after new releases of the
> library behind - with recent GeoIP-Versions php crashs
> if "geoip_db_get_all_info" is called, and sorry but
> after more than 2 years it is not the users hob reporting
> everything necause lazy maintainers writing code once
> and orphaning it
>=20
> http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http/2.0.0dev1
> coll, in th emiddle of 5.3 lifecycle a total incompatible
> reqrite is started and hopefully no one has projects
> relying on the pecl-extension
>=20
> http://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2
> was three years not maintained and could not compiled
> with recent versions of libssh2 without some magic
> patches from distributors
>=20
> http://pecl.php.net/package/gnupg
> did not work for threee years on fedora-systems
> no anwser on bu-reports - so what do you do in such a case?
>=20
> and you will tell us PECL is a relieable source for components
> anybody is using in his projetcs? not really!
>=20
>=20