CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken

Hi internals We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740) that the -z command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work. This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line argument. However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality it never loaded properly. I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a clean solution isn't straight-forward. Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least PHP 5.5, a long time. As passing -d zend_extension=foo on the command line is already a suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the -z option in PHP 8.5 instead of fixing it. Are there any objections against this? Please let us know. Kind regards Niels