On Fri, December 8, 2006 10:03 am, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > COM: > Un-maintained at this time and has a fairly serious number of bugs > (26 by latest count, many of which are crashes) > Only usable to Win32 users, which I think we all admit are a > minority and can always download readily available binaries from > pec4win. Since most of them don't compile the extension from source > anyway there is IMHO little reason to bundle the sources with every > php package. > Moving it to PECL will allow for an independent release cycle, which > may allow for faster fix deployment etc... > I hoping the move will encourage people and/or companies to start > maintaining the extension.
+1, so long as the php_com.dll or whatever is readily available somewhere. > 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. +1 > sockets: > Un-maintained. > Majority of what it can do can already by done via streams in a much > more consistent and stable fashion. This one maks me nervous... Seems like this would get used a fair amount for legacy code to run custom web app/server stuff... I guess anybody smart enough to do that and make it work ought to be able to find/install a PECL extension, though, eh? +0.8 -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
