COM:
Un-maintained at this time and has a fairly serious number of bugs
(26 by latest count, many of which are crashes)
I don't think COM should be moved out. Right, it's windows only - but if
you are on windows, COM extension is most useful (I used it a number of
times and it's really amazing how easily you can do various data
processing stuff if you combine power of PHP with, for example, Excel).
As for bugs, they certainly need some attention, only moving it to PECL
is not going to do them any better :) And as far as I can see, COM
extension does not consume any significant resources. So I don't think
it's a good idea to move it out.
mhash:
Everything this extension that relies on an external lib to do, is
already done by hash extension that is enabled by default and requires
no external libs. There is simply no reason to keep it around.
Sounds convincing to me. Only thing I see is that manual right now does
not give clear idea of what algorithms hash extension supports. It's not
an argument against moving mhash out but suggestion for improvement :)
sockets:
Un-maintained.
Majority of what it can do can already by done via streams in a much
more consistent and stable fashion.
The I guess it's ok to move it to 6.0 but I don't think it's ok for 5.2
since there's a potential for people using it in apps and streams has
quite different API so it'd require significant rewrite if people want
to use it with standard PHP. Thus, not good to change it in minor version.
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