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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:53:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] pecl_http
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

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>
> Discussion has been very low on this topic since it was proposed on
> August 19th, so I just opened the vote on the RFC whether to add
> pecl_http to the core. The vote will be open until about 12:00 UTC on
> Friday, February 6th.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pecl_http#vote


I wish you had pinged the list before opening the vote. I know there were a
few people who wanted to make comments but have just been very busy. For
example, I have been dealing with the return types RFC which has soaked up
all of the time I have for working on PHP projects.

Some feedback: I feel the RFC is not clear about the advantages and
disadvantages of including this package. Mostly, the RFC is "hey I have
this package can we include it in core?" I feel like it's fairly incomplete
as to *why* we should include it. There is a fair amount of work done in
user-land for these types of utilities, and I think without a more balanced
discussion we'd be giving this extension a distinct advantage.

If we allow it to remain in voting phase despite these issues, I have to
vote no simply because I don't feel like there is enough information
presented in the RFC for anyone except current pecl_http users to make a
good decision; that's hardly a good situation for the language as a whole.

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