port-i386/42869: php-json uses outdated PECL extension instead of core PHP extension for PHP 5.2+

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>Number:         42869
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       php-json uses outdated PECL extension instead of core PHP 
>extension for PHP 5.2+
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 22 21:25:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Will Bond
>Release:        5.0.1
>Organization:
Flourish
>Environment:
NetBSD vm-netbsd 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 01:39:11 UTC 2009  
builds%b8.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
 i386
>Description:
When running unit tests to test a PHP JSON class, I noticed that PHP was core 
dumping one of the mal-formed JSON tests. I removed 
/usr/pkgsrc/textproc/php-json and instead ran "phpize && ./configure && make 
install" in /usr/pkgsrc/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.12/ext/json/. After this, all of 
the tests ran successfully.

From this, and the fact that distfiles/php-json.tgz has a timestamp of the last 
PECL release, it appears to me that php-json is not using the json extension 
that has been part of PHP core since PHP 5.2.0.
>How-To-Repeat:
php -r 'print_r(json_decode("[{\"\":1}]"));'
>Fix:
For php 5.2+ use the json extension bundled with PHP in ext/json.