Because the user can see how active such functionality is by looking at the CVS logs, and doing a search on php-dev conversations.
While the authors have decided to mark it experimental doesn't mean it will ever not be experimental. Not to continue a "flame war", but this is Open Source, and it is done on free time. Because you the user feels you'd like to use such functionality it's not typically a concern for the developers. Often times this functionality is added to make their own lives easier, or to try an experiment with something. Take a look at the iD software policy: it'll be ready when it's ready. Thats all there is to it :) On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, NAIK,ROSHAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1) wrote: > > > > > Between 15 days and 15 months. > > Looking at the CVS its been 19 months since the EXPERMENTAL file was last > modified for sockets. > > No offense intended but, sometimes people dont seem to like to be asked such > "obvious" questions by users. I realize that people in open source are not > working for money but this attitude may be a little extreme. > > The obvious meaning behind the question was "is this piece under active > development?". > Users like to know such things so that they can have reasonable expectations > from what they are using or make alternate plans. And this list is the most > reasonable place for asking something like that. > > Bundling functionality into the distribution and tagging them as > experimental...its a way of giving end users hope to see something concrete > sooner or later...so why flame over it when the user comes back asking "how > it is doing" ? > > --Roshan > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "I'll walk a thousand miles just http://www.deadmime.org/~dank to slip this skin." [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Streets of Philadelphia", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Springstreen -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
