hi, On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@php.net> wrote: > Mikko Koppanen wrote: >> I was looking at annotations patch and it seems that my c-client does >> not support the functionality (2007b on Debian Lenny). Do the >> annotations require a custom patch to c-client as well? > > The request to include the annotations patch at Debian is at: > http://bugs.debian.org/456947 > > But as you can see, it is marked as blocked by > http://bugs.debian.org/456591 > > (the request against uw-imap/libc-client to include the patch.) > > Therefore, the blocker at the php level is enabling the annotations code at > configure time if the system supports it. Of course, support on libc-client > is necessary for it to be of any use. > > I just talked to Jonas Smedegaard (the Debian maintainer of libc-client,) > and apparently the reason for not merging it is that the code is dead > upstream and unmaintainable. A dead end. While digging for alternatives, it > appears that there was a discussion in 2004 for FC2 about the situation of > libc-client, but besides that: nothing.
I don't see a problem to include that in PHP as long as it is well done. Mikko updated the patches nicely, both the php and the c-client patch. > As it seems, the best and maintainable solution is to switch to some other > alternative library (sadly, there's no such candidate atm.) What make you think that c-client is dead? I have seen updates last year and I know that the main developer still works and support this library. I don't think either that using 6 years old discussions to decide something is a good idea. Something like that happened for php and gd with Etch, and it was a total fiasco. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
