Why did PHP remove Informix support?

I just installed 5.2.4 and found that the developers have removed
Informix support! Informix and PHP are great stuff. Why pull
something that works fine?

http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.ifx.php

>From devzone:
In other CVS news, Tony moved ext/informix out of the core in PHP_5_2
branch and CVS HEAD. The extension now resides in PECL CVS, but has no
maintainer at the time of writing. The actively maintained pecl/
pdo_informix extension should be used in new code.

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:46:03 -0700, gquiring@gmail.com wrote:

> I just installed 5.2.4 and found that the developers have removed
> Informix support! Informix and PHP are great stuff. Why pull something
> that works fine?
>
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.ifx.php
>
>>From devzone:
> In other CVS news, Tony moved ext/informix out of the core in PHP_5_2
> branch and CVS HEAD. The extension now resides in PECL CVS, but has no
> maintainer at the time of writing. The actively maintained pecl/
> pdo_informix extension should be used in new code.

Sounds like they told you what happened and what to do about it right
there.

--
I told you this was going to happen.

On Sep 19, 3:46 pm, "gquir...@gmail.com" <gquir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed 5.2.4 and found that the developers have removed
> Informix support! Informix and PHP are great stuff. Why pull
> something that works fine?
>
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.ifx.php
>
> >From devzone:
>
> In other CVS news, Tony moved ext/informix out of the core in PHP_5_2
> branch and CVS HEAD. The extension now resides in PECL CVS, but has no
> maintainer at the time of writing. The actively maintained pecl/
> pdo_informix extension should be used in new code.


"has no maintainer"

If it has no active maintainer, it probably shouldn't be in core.