On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:49:03 +0200, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
Before I go with a RFC and all that, I would like to check the current
feeling about killing ext/imap. The c-client project is dead since
quite some time already. I do not see any viable alternative
(applicable to server side usages) and it would be very hard to
maintain the same APIs, given the little mess in the imap's API.
There are also plenty of very good PHP implementation out there.
Roundcube being my favourite, zeta components of the Zend Frameworks
being two other.
What are your thoughts about this drop?
Since the library is not maintained anymore, this is an obvious candidate to move to PECL -- same case as sqlite.
But then PHP will be further from Zawinski's law of software envelopment, which is a cause for concern :)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law_of_software_envelopment
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Gustavo Lopes