Hello everyone,
There are several deprecated extensions that serve no purpose
currently (like the service they depend on hasn't been around for
years...) so let's do something about it.
The following extensions could be removed from the docs with no
alternatives except adding aspell->pspell to the 404:
aspell: deprecated forever, confusing
ccvs: no longer relevant to the world
cybercash: no longer relevant to the world
cybermut: does anyone know if this still works? 404's all around
mcal: unmaintained, no releases, doubt it still works
muscat: unmaintained, no longer works
pfpro: no longer relevant to the world
satellite: deprecated, experimental, old, dead
sesam: php 3 only
And there are a few more that may or may not stay, depending on if we
feel enough time has passed. These are:
clibpdf: deprecated, people are told not to use, but people still do
dbm: dead, may be safe to remove
ircg: the source was manually removed from php.net servers last
year, should keep for awhile
oracle: worth keeping, but we can promote oci8 a little better here
The proposed path:
A) Delete sources from phpdoc-all/*/
B) Create appendix of removed extensions, including all ids
One note: if people _really_ need these docs I'm sure they will find
them as there are a zillion old PHP manuals online and archive.org. I
sure hope people using the above have already rewritten their code
with alternatives though...
If you know of other extensions to add here, or have general
concerns, please say so.
Regards,
Philip
