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 <[email protected]> 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 dead, no longer maintained and it needed a message to this list to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!
>
>