On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> Hi Lukas, >> >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> These extension seem widely used enough that we have to make it an effort >>> to >>> support them. >> >> If it is so widely used, why noone complains about this removal? Why >> there is nobody taking care of the bugs or sending patches? > > I don't think this argument works very well. If we were to apply that in > general terms, we should probably drop Windows support completely because > there are pretty much no Windows users taking care of bugs, nor sending > patches. There are a couple, I don't want to make their contributions seem > insignificant, but the ratio of users to contributors is terrible for the > Windows platform.
You are right, that's not a good argument. However I'm still not sure about how it helps to have it in the core. What if I release them through PECL of the current state and apply patches or write fixes if there is reports and tests? DLLs can be built as well using what we had in the last 5.2 releases. That will make no difference for the users and will ease my work (sorry to be egoist :). > For something like the SNMP extension, it works ok. SNMP isn't exciting in > any way. I did some work on it so it got to the point where it was useful > to me, and there have been a couple of requests over the years to extend it, > but I think for most people it does all it needs to do. Agreed, that's why I made a call for love first and did not work well so far. Maybe you can motivate Brian :) Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
