Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:8266 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17945 invoked by uid 1010); 1 Mar 2004 08:36:42 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17901 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 08:36:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO colo.lerdorf.com) (66.198.51.121) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 08:36:42 -0000 Received: from DELL (c-24-6-1-90.client.comcast.net [24.6.1.90]) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Debian-3) with ESMTP id i218aVBo021477; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:36:31 -0800 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:36:25 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) To: Derick Rethans cc: internals@lists.php.net, pecl-dev@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-X-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on colo Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleaning up the browscap mess From: rasmus@php.net (Rasmus Lerdorf) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > 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. > > If you make it a pecl extension it won't be available to a lot of > people, so I think it's not a good idea to do so. You are not exactly helping dispell the Siberia myth here. Making it a maintained PECL extension has absolutely nothing to do with the number of people it is available to. It has everything to do with disconnecting the release schedule from PHP's release schedule. We would still include it with PHP releases assuming someone actually makes it work. Currently we make unmaintained broken code available to a whole lot of people... -Rasmus