Could you open a bug for GeoIP? Being aware of bugs helps more than bitching around.
Thanks Olivier (iPhone) Le 2011-06-05 à 04:37, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> a écrit : > Am 05.06.2011 12:57, schrieb Pierre Joye: > >> The last point is that pecl allows a much more flexible release >> management than the core will even do. > > in theory > >> So instead of doing some marketing/communication actions by bundling some >> known extensions, we should better promote pecl better. > > not promote - MAINTAIN it better! > in fact most of PECL-extensions are a lucky game since > linux distributors has to find workarounds for rarely > maintained extensions and you can not be sure that > a extension can be compiled after a update of php > or some system-library and only if you have luck > a maintainer answers on a bug-report > _____________________ > > http://pecl.php.net/package/GDChart > dead, no longer maintained and it needed a message to this list to > get this confirmed by Ilia Alshanetsky, WTF - why is there no big > red hint "DO NOT USE IT" until now? > > http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip - stable 2009-03-11 > what about try if this works after new releases of the > library behind - with recent GeoIP-Versions php crashs > if "geoip_db_get_all_info" is called, and sorry but > after more than 2 years it is not the users hob reporting > everything necause lazy maintainers writing code once > and orphaning it > > http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http/2.0.0dev1 > coll, in th emiddle of 5.3 lifecycle a total incompatible > reqrite is started and hopefully no one has projects > relying on the pecl-extension > > http://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2 > was three years not maintained and could not compiled > with recent versions of libssh2 without some magic > patches from distributors > > http://pecl.php.net/package/gnupg > did not work for threee years on fedora-systems > no anwser on bu-reports - so what do you do in such a case? > > and you will tell us PECL is a relieable source for components > anybody is using in his projetcs? not really! > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
