Re: [RFC} Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:43:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC} Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx | ||
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On 19.09.2018 at 00:24, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> Hmm, I have some doubts that it's okay for users if we remove the WDDX
>> extension in PHP 7.4 without any deprecation phase. Is there any
>
> I think deprecation phase is necessary for features that are being
> removed. For extension being moved to PECL I do not see any point in
> annoying the users for a year with error messages. If they need it,
> they'll keep using it anyway, if they do not, they'll drop it - but
> deprecation messages here do not add much value that one single
> announcement can't make.
Okay, I get your point. The accepted “Cleaning up unmaintained
extensions” RFC[1] suggests to move to PECL without any deprecation, so
it seems to me we should follow that RFC (i.e. start with a call for
maintainership).
[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions>
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Christoph M. Becker