Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:68657 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41434 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2013 22:36:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Aug 2013 22:36:05 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.223.116.227 227-116.citynet.ftth.internl.net Received: from [85.223.116.227] ([85.223.116.227:24893] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C1/20-40549-45B7E125 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:36:05 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:36:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <521E468E.5070406@sugarcrm.com> <521E534E.2060603@sugarcrm.com> <521E6E36.4060007@sugarcrm.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 85.223.116.227 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Attitude against distributions... (Was: JSON non-free license) From: phpdev@ehrhardt.nl (Jan Ehrhardt) Stas Malyshev in php.internals (Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:40:06 -0700): >What we need to consider this extension as a replacement for core JSON is: >- explanation of advantages and disadvantages (noting that for most PHP >users "weird license" is not a significant disadvantage of the >extension) of the change >- RFC >- API description >- potential BC problems >- performance impact Some PECL extensions rely on (static?) json: couchdb, couchbase and solr. The maintainers of these extensions will have some work to do, unless the replacement is completely BC. Jan