Re: Bug #10374 [Opn->Bgs]: Depreciated features or not

Ilia A. wrote:

On August 14, 2002 02:05 am, you wrote:

Hi Ilia, One of the compaliant about PHP is things has been depreciated/changed w/o proper prior notice. Many users are tried with the _bad_ practice AFAIK.

Well depreciation does not mean the functions were removed, it simply means that there is an advisory by developers indicating that the function MAY be removed at some future point. Now, if you consider other languages, or libraries like glibc for example, they do depreciate functions once in the blue moon. When that is done during compilation, unless error level is set to nill you would get a notice from the compiler indicating that a certain function has been depriciated and you should use function XYZ as an alternative. Perphaps, we should do the same for PHP?

A few issues are needed to be resolved, but it may work. Anyway, We are better to have loadmap for both developer and users. Why? I guess we don't have agreement how PECL is used still, and/or which module should be moved to PECL, for example. There are many things that are better to be described/notified. I posted the feature request so that someone is interested someday, since not many people are interested last time I asked here. -- Yasuo Ohgaki