On 08.01.2017 at 14:31, Joe Watkins wrote: > Leaving them open isn't helping anyone or anything, and if it overwhelms me > to see that many, you can be pretty sure it has scared a bunch of people > away.
I have to agree. Since others already have expressed to be in favor of a "mass cleanup", I'm not opposed. :-) >> Unmaintained bundled extensions should be considererd to be moved to PECL >> as soon as possible (there is already a RFC draft[1] about this – I hope >> this will proceed soon). > > I'm not sure what you mean by unmaintained, anything bundled is maintained > by virtue of the fact it is bundled ? It appears to me that several extensions get rather "odd fixes" only (borrowing the terminology of EXTENSIONS). > While I agree that some of those should be removed, I don't think it solves > any long term problems for us. I beg to differ. Fewer extensions mean less code to maintain. > Maybe you could draft an RFC to put a team together, ask for volunteers to > work on that project and see what happens. I'll think about it. :-) -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
