On Aug 15, 2016 3:17 PM, "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" <ka...@php.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Stas
>
> 2016-08-15 7:53 GMT+02:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'd like to propose an RFC to deal with extensions that currently have
> > no maintainer:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions
>
> enchant:
> I thought Pierre maintained enchant? Despite it haven't had much real
> activity for years

Well there are not much changes in the api.

And it works. So -1 here.

> gettext
> WordPress can optionally use gettext for some of their po/mo files,
> I'm not entirely sure how this is today[1], but it might be worth
> taking into consideration if there are other users.

Here as much as I do not like it. I have to oppose it. That is a major
breakage (no, pecl is not the same).

> pdo_dblib
> I have seen a few PRs here and there recently from two different guys,
> perhaps one of them would be interested in maintaining this as there
> this is the only way to connect to MSSQL from PHP (if you dislike
> odbc) as of PHP7, with the removal of ext/mssql.
>
> pdo_oci
> I have heard that maybe Oracle was going to take over this one, but it
> seems fairly inactive, maybe this thread can help reach out to them.
>
> readline
> If removed, I guess this won't affect sapi/cli?
>
> pspell
> Pspell should probably have been deprecated after enchant was added to
> the core in 5.3 I think it was, we did remove aspell infavor but
> pspell still remained for some reason and I think it should go too.
>
> sysvmsg / sysvshm / sysvsem
> We do indeed only have a category for semaphores. As a Windows guy, I
> cannot really make use of them, so I will wait and hear some feedback
> on this.
>
>
> tokenizer
> Like you mentioned, I think this should be kept in the core and
> possibly maintained as a part of the parser. I do write some
> development tools every now and then and make use of this amazing
> extension and will only want it to be kept.
>
>
> All in all, I think it is remarkable that we have 3 PDO extensions
> here, perhaps it will be time to reivist the whole PDO saga, but that
> is for another topic I guess
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/search?l=php&q=gettext&utf8=✓
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Kalle Sommer Nielsen
> ka...@php.net

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