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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:27:17 +0200
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported
 SAPIs and extensions
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> properly after the voting phase the
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis_and_exts moves to the
>> voting. Each item is voted separately. The voting ends on 2015-02-09 at
>> 21:00 CET.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Anatol
>>
>
> I get the motivation to drop dead SAPIs or extensions that require
> unmaintained libraries.
>
> However this list also contains a number of exts like ext/interbase where
> people have explicitly stated in the discussion that the extension is still
> supported and will be ported to PHP 7. Why do we vote to remove them? Or
> did I misunderstand something?
>
> Nikita

I'd like to ask the same thing about oci8 and pdo_oci. I haven't dealt
with Oracle in awhile now, but last time I had to - it was still in
PECL, so ... why and where would it get removed from?

Cheers,
Andrey.