Re: Re: [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup

On 14.06.2018 at 00:47, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> That said, in my opinion it is too late for 7.3 to move a bundled >> extension to PECL, except perhaps for unresolved or even unresolvable >> security reasons. ext/wddx comes to mind, and maybe there are others. > > I'd be happy to move wddx if nobody steps up to maintain it. It has tons > of security issues lately (not even sure all are fixed) and it hard to > make heads or tails in it without really deep dive, for which I don't > think I have time, and nobody else seems to. And since it's a kinda > obscure format which in 99% of cases can be replaced by json I suspect... *Deprecation* of ext/wddx is part of the “Deprecations for PHP 7.3” RFC[1] draft. Are you planning to pursue this RFC, Nikita? Anyhow, I think moving ext/wddx to PECL for PHP 7.3 might be preferable to a deprecation phase, given that we had discussed this almost a year before[2], and already had an RFC which would only have deprecated the object deserialization[3] withdrawn, but had not actually made any progress. [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_3> [2] <https://externals.io/message/100183> [3] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/wddx-deprecate-class-instance-deserialization> -- Christoph M. Becker