Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-05 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: That said, I personally never had a problem searching the haxx.se site and finding out what CURLOPT_XYZ meant, except for the php-specific CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER... :-) The binding has a 1:1 mapping on all its option names (except CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSF

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
gt; it first. It's not complicated code, it just needs research. And > tests. And > then docs. > > - Steph > > > - Original Message - > From: "Daniel Stenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:43 AM > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-02 Thread Steph Fox
The easy solution: move the mailing list over to php.net, and/or subscribe to it all of the committers to /ext/curl (and yes, I have been subscribed to the mailing list, but had overall more questions than answers...) Nope... Daniel agreed to keep his ML going. That's not a concern, it can be

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-02 Thread Gaetano Giunta
But pushing the PHP docs (as Steph suggested later) to your site will only bring you more questions about php's CURL binding. It sounds like a bad idea :) The fact is that Daniel does a wonderful job giving out plenty of advice to php/curl help seekers not just on its website (I'd go as far as

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-01 Thread Pierre
On 8/1/07, Steph Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But pushing the PHP docs (as Steph suggested later) to your site will > > only bring you more questions about php's CURL binding. It sounds like > > a bad idea :) > > Erm... where did I suggest that? Nowhere :) No idea why I misunderstood your po

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-01 Thread Steph Fox
Shh, Philip will see you! (Thanks!) - Original Message - From: "Alan Milnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Steph Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension On 01/08

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-01 Thread Steph Fox
But pushing the PHP docs (as Steph suggested later) to your site will only bring you more questions about php's CURL binding. It sounds like a bad idea :) Erm... where did I suggest that? I'm saying the exact opposite - you're right, it's an extremely bad idea! and it also happens to describe t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-01 Thread Philip Olson
There's also a bit more to this than straightforward documentation. I think I mentioned already. That's fine but if you need help with the documentation please give me a shout. Consider this a shout from the PHP Manual! Please send [EMAIL PROTECTED] an email introducing yourself and we'l

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-01 Thread Pierre
Hi Daniel, On 7/31/07, Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would > > accomplish. > > Then I didn't make myself clear. > > The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something with a > name that doesn't conf

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Milnes
On 01/08/07, Steph Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's also a bit more to this than straightforward documentation. I think > I mentioned already. That's fine but if you need help with the documentation please give me a shout. Alan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Steph Fox
h - Original Message - From: "Derick Rethans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Stenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Daniel Stenberg wrote: On T

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would >> accomplish. > > Then I didn't make myself clear. > > The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something > with a name that doesn't c

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would > > accomplish. > > Then I didn't make myself clear. > > The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would accomplish. Then I didn't make myself clear. The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something with a name that doesn't confuse them. If the binding would be ca

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
I am the primary author and maintainer of the libcurl library, the underlying library that supports the PHP extension named... eh, right. What is the extension called really? CURL? ext/curl? curl? It's called "CURL extension", I'd say. As there's MySQL extension, Json extension, DOM extension,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would accomplish. It's a thin wrapper on top of the curl library which isn't something we can nor want to hide, so no matter what we call it, people are still going to go looking for more information about curl and the opening paragraph

Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Steph Fox
And tests. And then docs. - Steph - Original Message - From: "Daniel Stenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:43 AM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension Hi PHP hackers! (I'm not subscribed, please CC me if you want me t

[PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Stenberg
Hi PHP hackers! (I'm not subscribed, please CC me if you want me to read your responses.) I am the primary author and maintainer of the libcurl library, the underlying library that supports the PHP extension named... eh, right. What is the extension called really? CURL? ext/curl? curl? I'm w