On Aug 29, 2024, at 2:49 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > it seems to me that we're pulling through ext/snmp without having any > real expert of the protocol, let alone of the implementation. The > extension has no code owner, and according to EXTENSIONS, it has no > primary maintainer for more than ten years. Skimming through the commit > log mostly shows general clean-ups and changes. And seeing that there > have only two issues been reported on Github[1], I would conclude that > either the extension just works as expected, or that it is not used > much. A recent doc-bug report[2] makes me believe it's the latter. > > Personally, I barely know what SNMP is used for, but have no deeper > understanding of that protocol, and I can remember that it took me quite > a while to work out how to even set up a testing environment on Windows > (without understanding the details). > > So the question is: do we have any SNMP experts (or some who want to > become SNMP experts) around, who would want to take a look at the > extension and its documentation? > > [1] > <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Extension%3A+snmp%22+is%3Aopen> > [2] <https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3690> > > Christoph
I suspect it's not in high use either; Michael's reply suggests that. Maybe it could be spun out to PECL if there's a lack of interest in it, like imap was? (stupid speculation follows, people who know the history correct me) There are a few other extensions like that in ext/. I'm thinking a lot of them would have been in PECL or done in userland, but they were at the right place in the right time and ended up in ext/ instead. They might predate PECL (seems to be the case for SNMP), or wrapped a library hat was mature and well-used when it was written (seemed to the case for imap).
