Re: [RFC} Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:02:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC} Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx | ||
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Hi!
> We have deprecated and moved to PECL a number of extensions in the
> recent past. These were mysql and ereg in PHP 7.0 and mcrypt in PHP 7.2.
> I have always understood these moves as "sunsetting" the extensions, in
> the sense of strongly discouraging their continued use, as well as
> removing any promise of further maintenance. The move to PECL rather
> than outright deletion of the code is just a matter of general policy
> (or so I thought).
I think we should distinguish between the two cases - not having
extension in core and deprecating the extension. Unless we declare that
the only function of PECL now is to serve as a graveyard for archival of
deprecated code. I don't think we really want to do that? If yes, than
we should distinguish between deprecating the extension and just moving
it to PECL.
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com