This has been discussed awhile back, the docs need
to remain BC just as much as php itself is... the
answer is never as simple as rm -r reference/{ext}
Regarding PEAR, it's not really the answer either
as it's not where removed extensions go. It is
where _some_ PECL extensions go though but keep
in mind that one day about ALL extensions will be
PECL, so this topic is touchy as we have:
a) All extensions will be PECL
b) Most will still be distributed in main tarball
c) Do we keep all of (b) in PHP manual, and
the rest in PEAR manual? I think so.
d) Nobody yet knows for sure how all this will
be done. Like, what will be (re)moved from
php4 source in the future.
But that's another topic :)
Sure I hear cybercash is no longer in service but this
is just one example. For example we should treat it
like we do other deprecated extensions, like aspell
and icap (although even those two are treated
differently) I made a huge email here but it was
so large and contained many topics that it got lost,
was sent to php-dev, etc. see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=phpdoc&m=103856748014419
It outlines many ideas on how to deal with this topic.
Goba later asked for an RFC to be made on the topic:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=phpdoc&m=103926520106112
Friedhelm started one at:
phpdoc/RFC/moved_extensions
And that's where we're at. I'll add to the RFC later
today, more comments welcome.
Regards,
Philip
p.s. I responded to the top of this email specifically
for Derick :)
On 31 Dec 2002, James Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 11:00, John Coggeshall wrote:
> > I was just looking through the CVS tree:
> >
> > http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/php4/ext/cybercash
> >
> > And I noticed that the cybercash extension apparently simply doesn't
> > exist anymore. It looks like the service itself has disappeared
> > (actually been baught out) hence, no need for an extension.
> >
> > I don't have access to my tree, can someone confirm what I have found
> > and remove the documentation for the extension? I see absolutely no
> > reason why we should keep the documentation at all, as anybody who was
> > using the extension simply can't anymore if the service simply doesn't
> > exist.
> >
> I think we could remove the documentation from the main tree and place
> it into the pear documentation. We need to look at a general way for
> providing "bc" for cases like this so links don't end up broken.
>
> -- james
>
>
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