Re: ext/imap -> bye bye in PHP 5.6

From: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:30:39 +0000
Subject: Re: ext/imap -> bye bye in PHP 5.6
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Bruno CHALOPIN <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-01-31 Hannes Magnusson <[email protected]>:
>
>> There was a thread in April 2012 about removing ext/imap since
>> c-client is dead and has been for a while.
>> It has been longer while now, and distros like RHEL-7 have dropped the
>> extension completely.
>>
>> We can't pretend anymore that ext/imap is a _core_ functionality of
>> PHP that everyone writing webapps needs. It needs to be removed :)
>>
>
> By removing, you mean completely delete the code or migrate from ext/imap
> to pecl ?

The latter, while maintaining it in PECL makes no sense, maybe time to
create the legendary Siberia :)

Cheersm
-- 
Pierre

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