Docs outdated

[aidantwoods]

If you run pecl install libsodium (as currently recommended in the install guide in the docs) then you'll get libsodium 2.x which is BC breaking with 1.x. Extension is also now called sodium.so[1] and all the functions are in the global namespace[2] (so e.g. the version verification script in the docs does not work, as it uses \Sodium\... instead of the global namespace).

Not sure if you want to rewrite the docs for 2.x, or include a version constraint in the pecl install (1.x is stated not to receive any more updates[3], so former likely preferable).

References:
[1], [2], [3]: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-php/blob/4e668284deaff4243c7ef36025525f44bbeb8078/README.md

[paragonie-scott]

I'm not sure what I want to do here either. The whole politics of PHP internals has kind of made a mess of things.

[jedisct1]

I don't really have time to maintain the 1.x branch, the 2.x branch, and the php-src versions either.

Indeed, the breaking changes required by PHP internals resulted in quite of a mess.

We can write wrappers between the original and the PHP-internals API (actually someone already did that a while back), but it will be yet another thing to maintain.

As much as I don't like the new API, it's too late, I think we don't have any options, but adopt it.

[Arteneko]

Will there be any sodium documentation in the close time ? Or should we keep relying on the old v1.x extension releases (by manually building/installing them) for now ?

[paragonie-scott]

The documentation has been updated. I'm going to go through it today and make sure it's adequately clean/readable before I tag/sign a release.