PHP RFC: Removal of dead SAPIs

• Version: 0.5
• Date: 2014-01-24
• Author: Anatol Belski, ab@php.net
• Status: Abandoned is favour of https://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis_and_exts
• First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis

Currently PHP contains many SAPIs to the servers either completely unavailable or unsupported for a long time. The corresponding list

Dead SAPIs:

• aolserver
• apache
• apache_hooks
• caudium
• continuity
• isapi
• milter
• phttpd
• pi3web
• roxen
• thttpd
• tux
• webjames
• apache2filter - not really dead, but currently broken

Maintained SAPIs:

• apache2handler
• cli
• cgi
• embed
• fpm
• litespeed
• nsapi
• phpdbg

Things required to be done for the final decisions:

• research the author names
• articulate the exact state of each dead SAPI
• articulate the exact state and availability of the corresponding server
• if possible and makes sense, check if the SAPIs compiles, even with very ancient but latest release of the server
• check if there are packages supported by distros
• notify the authors about a possible removal of the corresponding SAPI, wait for their response and include it for the final decision

This RFC crosses with https://wiki.php.net/rfc/size_t_and_int64 as removal of the dead SAPIs will exlude the need of their porting.

Dead SAPIs should be removed.

As the dead SAPIs are already dead, no BC breach is expected.

7

Dead SAPI list in the description.

None.

php.ini will have to be checked to remove the unavailable config options, if any.

None.

None.

Should an SAPI come back, the corresponding code is available in the git history.

Remove dead SAPIs: yes/no

Links to any external patches and tests go here.

If there is no patch, make it clear who will create a patch, or whether a volunteer to help with implementation is needed.

Make it clear if the patch is intended to be the final patch, or is just a prototype.

After the project is implemented, this section should contain

1. the version(s) it was merged to
2. a link to the git commit(s)
3. a link to the PHP manual entry for the feature

Links to external references, discussions or RFCs

Keep this updated with features that were discussed on the mail lists.