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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] considering to remove ext/imap from master
From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:49:03 +0200, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Before I go with a RFC and all that, I would like to check the current
> feeling about killing ext/imap. The c-client project is dead since
> quite some time already. I do not see any viable alternative
> (applicable to server side usages) and it would be very hard to
> maintain the same APIs, given the little mess in the imap's API.
>
> There are also plenty of very good PHP implementation out there.
> Roundcube being my favourite, zeta components of the Zend Frameworks
> being two other.
>
> What are your thoughts about this drop?

Since the library is not maintained anymore, this is an obvious candidate  
to move to PECL -- same case as sqlite.

But then PHP will be further from Zawinski's law of software envelopment,  
which is a cause for concern :)

[1]  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law_of_software_envelopment

-- 
Gustavo Lopes