> Do you see yourself taking over the maintainership by any chance? apply the patches for PHP 7 compatibility and work on PHP 8?
Sorry, i don't think so because i have to maintain my own OSS project that requires enough of my attention and free time. I simply want to consume the PAM feature. Volker > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 4:19 PM Volker Theile < > volker.the...@openmediavault.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> i've opened the tracker issue https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80004 >> which requests Linux PAM (pluggable authentication modules) support in >> PHP8. IMO PAM is an essential feature that is required by professional >> applications. Sadly the PECL extension https://pecl.php.net/package/PAM >> is not maintained anymore and can't be used in PHP7 without patching it. >> I fear with PHP8 this will not be possible anymore. >> >> Because of that i want to bring up this topic and start a discussion if >> it is possible to integrate PAM support in the origin Git source tree, >> so package maintainer (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, ...) can activate it simply >> via build flag and ship this extension through their packages. By >> integrating it into the origin source tree there is no need for a PECL >> extension anymore, the benefit of this will be that the code is always >> up-to-date and can be build out of the origin source. >> > The code needs to be maintained by someone to be up to date, putting it > into php-src will not magically solve that issue. > > I don't think PAM has a chance of ever getting into php-src, even if the > PECL module is well maintained. It is just too specific, and the exact > reason that PECL exists. Do you see yourself taking over the maintainership > by any chance? apply the patches for PHP 7 compatibility and work on PHP 8? > >> Regards >> Volker >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
