On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
> 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. > > Oh, one more item: has anyone had time to review the pieces and how they all interact, as well as reviewing the quality of each component? I should hardly think in the time given this has been done. I'm not saying this extension is bad; I am saying that I don't think there's been time for anyone to properly evaluate whether it is or not.
