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

On 07.10.2018 at 18:40, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > Den lør. 6. okt. 2018 kl. 15.50 skrev Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>: > >> 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] >> <K� ݕ�V�w�"� >> �Ohttps://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 support that is way outdated and such and up our requirements at the 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. ACK. The PHP manual says[1] that dbm is discouraged, and ndbm is deprecated, so dropping support for these *might* be reasonable. cdb(_make) support is something we might want to investigate. [1] <http://php.net/manual/en/dba.requirements.php> -- Christoph M. Becker