On 22 April 2015 at 11:40, Stelian Mocanita <steli...@php.net> wrote:
> Peter, > > I did not know about the documentation part, thanks for clearing that out. > > I would like to ask though, what is the benefit of having the dead > extensions there? > From my point of view, it does more harm than good having them in the > manual > (I am only referring here to extensions that never got to a production > grade). > > On marking the extension as dead, how would we proceed in this case? > We have boilerplate text for marking PECL extensions as dead, and we would use that again here. However, I'd hold off on that until a decision (if any) has been made on what to do with the extension itself, like moving it (back) to PECL. We shouldn't be distributing a "dead" extension in the main php-src tree, nor proclaiming an extension "dead" in the manual when that hasn't been "officially" decided yet. > > Thank you, > Stelian > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 22 April 2015 at 11:24, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> cc-ing doc list >>> >>> On 22 April 2015 at 10:40, Stelian Mocanita <stelian.mocan...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello internals, >>>> >>>> I would like to ask what on your thoughts on removing the Oracle drive >>>> for >>>> PDO from the documentation ( >>>> http://us1.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-oci.php) >>>> at least since it's been experimental for a long time now, and it has >>>> long >>>> standing open bugs, such as: >>>> >>> >> From the documentation point of view: >> >> Just because an extension is considered experimental, or indeed >> unmaintained, is no reason to remove the extension from the manual. We >> have a bunch of extensions marked as experimental [1] or dead [2] and I >> don't see why pdo_oci should be any different. >> >> >>> >>>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37706 >>>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46728 >>>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60994 >>>> >>>> I know that the extension is marked as experimental already but based on >>>> the current status, it's not even that and a significant amount of basic >>>> functionality is broken. >>>> >>> >> Let's mark the extension as "dead" in the manual, as we do with other >> dead extensions. >> >> >>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Stelian >>>> >>> >>> >> [1] bcompiler, blenc, dbplus, haru, memtrack, ming, paradox, pdo_4d, >> pdo_oci, sca, sdodasrel, spl_types, svn, swish, vpopmail, xmlrpc >> [2] classkit, fam, fdf, iisfunc, msession, nis, session_pgsql >> > >
