Re: ext/dba: drop support for Berkeley DB < 4

Hi Christoph Den lør. 6. okt. 2018 kl. 15.50 skrev Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>: > > Hi! > > ext/dba still supports Berkeley DB 2 and 3, and offers an emulation > layer for version 1 databases. However, Berkeley DB 4 has been released > in 2001, and Berkeley DB 3.3.11, the final release of the 3.XX > versions[1], has been released on 2001-07-12. It doesn't seem to make > much sense to support these old version anymore. > > Unless I'm missing something, I suggest to drop support for Berkeley DB > < 4 as of PHP 7.4.0. > > [1] > <²‡ã > £ó&K‡®hìÊuÊhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/berkeleydb/downloads/index-082944.html> I think this is generally a good idea to look at such. Perhaps we should do a larger, collective effort to get an idea of what things we support that is way outdated and such and up our requirements at the same time. There seems to have been a trend in that direction in the past year or so and I think its way overdue that we begin to remove crufts like that. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net