On 8-Dec-06, at 1:01 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
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.
Well, it does not consume any resources simply because no one is
maintaining it ;-). How really different things would be if it were
in pecl? I mean afaik COM is not enabled by default on win32, so you
still need to enable it manually. So, the only extra step for people
who want to use it would be to download it from pecl4win. This
updates extensions more frequently then we do releases, so it'd
actually give people the ability to get a more stable version
(assuming bug fixes are made) far sooner then they'd be able to
otherwise.
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 :)
There is a list on http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.hash-
algos.php, but I agree that we need a clearer list on the main page
of the docs for the hash extension.
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.
A good point for 5.2, but given that there is no one to support users
using this extension if people start using that extension they
potentially leading themselves to a dead-end. Given how far the
streams have gone lately I do not believe that there is any interest
in maintaining this extension any further.
Ilia Alshanetsky
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