Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions YasuoOhgaki

[Andrey Andreev]

Hi again,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Christoph M. Becker  wrote:
> On 29.06.2018 at 16:54, Andrey Andreev wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Stanislav Malyshev  
>> wrote:
>>>
 Readline is the only extension in your list that I would be sad about
 losing. I use it every day, I guess a lot of devs do.
>>>
>>> It's not "losing", per se, as the code doesn't get erased, it just moved
>>> to PECL. All distros can build it from there just as they do now. Then
>>> again, if it's super-important and doesn't have any major issues, we
>>> could keep it (or any other extension) around in "community maintained"
>>> status for a while.
>>
>> If "php -a" doesn't work without ext/readline (and I know it never
>> works for me if I don't install the distro-provided php-readline
>> package), then it is super-important.
>
> It's not about removing readline support for the interactive PHP shell,
> see .
>

I know it's not about that, but the problem is that currently (or on
7.0.x at least) the interactive shell doesn't work without the
extension.

Cheers,
Andrey.

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Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Cleaning up unmaintained extensions YasuoOhgaki

[Christoph M. Becker]

On 29.06.2018 at 16:54, Andrey Andreev wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Stanislav Malyshev  
> wrote:
>>
>>> Readline is the only extension in your list that I would be sad about
>>> losing. I use it every day, I guess a lot of devs do.
>>
>> It's not "losing", per se, as the code doesn't get erased, it just moved
>> to PECL. All distros can build it from there just as they do now. Then
>> again, if it's super-important and doesn't have any major issues, we
>> could keep it (or any other extension) around in "community maintained"
>> status for a while.
> 
> If "php -a" doesn't work without ext/readline (and I know it never
> works for me if I don't install the distro-provided php-readline
> package), then it is super-important.

It's not about removing readline support for the interactive PHP shell,
see .

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