> > Discussion has been very low on this topic since it was proposed on > August 19th, so I just opened the vote on the RFC whether to add > pecl_http to the core. The vote will be open until about 12:00 UTC on > Friday, February 6th. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pecl_http#vote
I wish you had pinged the list before opening the vote. I know there were a few people who wanted to make comments but have just been very busy. For example, I have been dealing with the return types RFC which has soaked up all of the time I have for working on PHP projects. Some feedback: I feel the RFC is not clear about the advantages and disadvantages of including this package. Mostly, the RFC is "hey I have this package can we include it in core?" I feel like it's fairly incomplete as to *why* we should include it. There is a fair amount of work done in user-land for these types of utilities, and I think without a more balanced discussion we'd be giving this extension a distinct advantage. If we allow it to remain in voting phase despite these issues, I have to vote no simply because I don't feel like there is enough information presented in the RFC for anyone except current pecl_http users to make a good decision; that's hardly a good situation for the language as a whole.
