Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
| From: | Benjamin Morel | Date: | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:36:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8 | ||
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> 2.78 million vs. 5.1 million* code references.
> 1.54 million results.
> 10 million results. Broad, active usage.
> ...
I would not in any way base deprecation decisions on current usage
statistics. If there are several ways to do something, and one is clearly
better than the others (naming consistency) then the choice should IMHO be
imposed to the community.
Trying to make 10+ years old codebases work with recent versions of PHP
without modification slows down development a lot.
Major versions are here to break things. Changelogs and runtime deprecation
notices are here to help.