Re: Remove $age parameter of curl_version()

On 01.05.2019 at 19:18, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > curl_version()[1] (of ext/curl) makes curl_version_info()[2] (of > libcurl) available to PHP userland. The latter requires to pass an age > argument which usually is CURLVERSION_NOW, so that the information > returned by the runtime matches the declarations used during compile > time. For C programs it is simply necessary to pass this information, > and it might make sense to pass something else than CURLVERSION_NOW, but > the PHP wrapper assumes that the return value of curl_version_info() > matches the compile time declarations anyway, so passing anything else > might give bad results. > > Therefore I suggest to remove this parameter in the long run altogether. > For PHP 7.4 I suggest to deprecate using the parameter, and also to > ignore anything that is not CURLVERSION_NOW, and to raise a warning in > this case. I.e. something like the following behavior: > > // okay > curl_version(); > > // E_DEPRECATED: passing an argument is deprecated > curl_version(CURLVERSION_NOW); > > // E_WARNING: argument ignored > curl_version($not_curlversion_now); > > Thoughts? Do I overlook something important? > > [1] > <https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-version.php> > [2] > <https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_version_info.html> I have submitted PR #4106[3] to address this issue. Of course, ignoring anything else than CURLVERSION_NOW would be a BC break, and is as such debatable. Also, the deprecation should be followed by an actual removal sometime in the future, so likely there should be a respective RFC -- or can we do without in this case? [3] <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4106> -- Christoph M. Becker