Newsgroups: php.internals,php.pecl.dev
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:8262 php.pecl.dev:444
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:44:27 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
To: internals@lists.php.net
cc: pecl-dev@lists.php.net
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.56.0402292133320.3964@DELL>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Subject: Cleaning up the browscap mess
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Guys, given the recent implosion of browscap/get_browser I would like to
find a volunteer to clean up this code.  See http://bugs.php.net/27438 for
the fireworks and http://bugs.php.net/27291 for some background.

I would suggest as a first step to pull it out of ext/standard and create
a pecl extension for it and second to go through and figure out if we can
continue to use the ini parser for this, which I am guessing we can't, so
the third task is likely to write a new parser for it.

I suppose an interim step could be to write a browscap.ini file sanitizer,
but this would be something for the volunteer(s) to decide on.

Any volunteers who feel strongly enough about this stuff to work on it?
Otherwise let's just drop it altogether.  The file this code is meant to
parse has clearly evolved and left the code behind over the years.

-Rasmus