On 03.02.2019 at 20:05, Peter Kokot wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 at 20:00, Joe Watkins <krak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On a side note, at what point do we remove stuff from the manual/pecl, the >> weakref is extension is dead, can't work with current versions of PHP, and >> there was never a stable release ? >> >> I'm not even sure we have a mechanism to delete stuff from pecl ... there's >> probably quite a lot of junk on there ... > > Since PECL extensions is one whole compilation of extensions working > "together" and not falling into conflicts with names and similar > issues, PECL admins can simply set the package as "superseded by" > another package. For example: > https://pecl.php.net/package/date_time > > If another "weakref" PHP extension will be developed elsewhere, > different naming can be picked for PECL or if that extension will > return to development, different approaches should be done probably > for it...
Not sure about removal from the PHP manual. This may never have happened before (except for PECL/idn which conflicted with ext/intl). Might be better to discuss this on the doc mailing list. F'up2 <php...@lists.php.net> -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
