Guys,
I don't think battling helps anyone.
I thought Daniel and myself had come to an (admittedly vague) agreement last
week that a good way to approach this might be by fixing the php.net docs to
give all the PHP-related info currently held on the libcurl site, and then
ditch that page on the libcurl site and just link to the downloads rather
than the libcurl project homepage.
As you might gather from that, I do agree with Daniel that the current setup
with ext/curl is utterly confusing for PHP users. I don't really care whose
fault it is, it just needs fixing.
Gwynne and myself have been talking under cover, and it seems we both are
keen to do something with this. She has other projects outstanding at
present (mainly the phpdoc build system) and I have a bunch of commitments
to fulfill before I head off on holiday. For both of us, September's the
first sane attack date when it comes to ext/curl.
There's also a bit more to this than straightforward documentation. I think
I mentioned already.
Can we please drop this now until we both have space to work on it? After
all, the status quo didn't arrive overnight.
Cheers,
- Steph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derick Rethans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daniel Stenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would
> accomplish.
Then I didn't make myself clear.
The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something
with a name that doesn't confuse them. If the binding would be called
'mombamoolo', they would search for that and they would certainly not
be confused by products or projects called curl or libcurl (even if
they would know that mombamoolo uses libcurl).
This has another side as well. If it was called mombamoolo then how
would people know that PHP is actually providing a wrapper for curl?
There have been some examples of this in the past "sattelite" and
"universe" where both extensions around corba for example- and if you
didn't know you'd have no idea where to look for. So I'd say that with
picking a different name you'd confuse people.
regards,
Derick
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