Den 2020-05-11 kl. 11:16, skrev Nikita Popov:
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:00 AM Björn Larsson
<bjorn.x.lars...@telia.com <mailto:bjorn.x.lars...@telia.com>> wrote:
Den 2020-05-11 kl. 08:57, skrev Christoph M. Becker:
> On 26.04.2020 at 15:28, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>
>> I propose to unbundle ext/xmlrpc, and written a respective RFC:
>>
>> <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unbundle_xmlprc>
> Thanks for the feedback so far. Unless there are further issues
> regarding the RFC to be discussed, I'll open voting tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
For sure it makes sense to unbundle it! However, I recall the
discussion
that was held around unbundling of ext/wddx that was about PECL
becoming a graveyard for unmaintained extensions. Is any of that
also applicable here, e.g. secondary voting option?
- https://externals.io/message/103164#103209
To be clear, the secondary voting option you're suggesting is whether
to deprecate the extension in PECL?
I believe the RFC already addresses the question, and I agree with the
reasoning where. Unlike the move of wddx to PECL, which was partially
made because we had specific security concerns with the extension, our
primary concern here is maintenance. There does not seem to be a
strong need to signal that people should stop using it ASAP. The
extension (and more importantly, the underlying library) has been
unmaintained for many years already and the move to PECL will not
change things materially in that regard.
Nikita
That was exactly my concern, i.e. to deprecate it or not. I was
seeing deprecation also as a signal about quality, not just if
there was a security issue. OTOH, maybe that's obvious when
looking at the changelog in the future.
r//Björn L
