Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60346 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61508 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2012 21:00:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Apr 2012 21:00:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:57733] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9A/68-16466-FE80B9F4 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:00:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03469DE13D; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:00:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:00:28 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Nikita Popov cc: Pierre Joye , PHP internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] considering to remove ext/imap from master From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > > hi! > > > > 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. > > A question not directly related to the rest of the discussion: > "Killing ext/imap" just means that it is not shipped by default > anymore right? It will still be available via pecl, so people who want > to use it, still can, right? Sigh. That works for people that control their environment. It doesn't work for the pletoria of cases where you have to rely on the hosters. Most hosters would never install anything from PECL. As far as I know, ext/imap works, it's not beautiful, but it works. So no need to remove it. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug