Re: Bundling "modern" extensions

From: Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:47:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Bundling "modern" extensions
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http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=2274

BTW:
that PHP 5.3.5 is the highest version in the dropdown for bugreports
does not provide the feeling of maintaining

Am 05.06.2011 20:39, schrieb Olivier Hill:
> 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 dead, no longer maintained and it needed a message to this list to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!
>>
>>
> 

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