Re: [RFC] E_DEPRECATED

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:08:57 +0200 helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger) wrote: > Hello internals, > > after recent discussions (over the last three months)I finally made > up my mind over E_STRICT, deprecation warnings and OOP > messages/rules. My idea proposal is to do the following: > > - Add a new severity E_DEPRECATED > > - severities are used as follows: > . E_DEPRECATED: Some language featre that is likely to go away. > Eearlierst removal would be two minor versions or one major version > later. That is something that gets deprecated in 5.2 can be removed > in 5.4.0 or 6.0.0. However both marking it as deprecated as well as > removing it would require a consensus on the list. +1 If removed in the next major version only. -1 otherwise. It is already a nightmare to remember or manage the various changes in all last minor releases. > You may respond with constructive ideas or complaints or go voting > for all or single points here, use -1, 0, +1 only. Please do not > reply for the sake of responding, use pure voting instead as we are > running out of time for 5.2.0 otherwise. +1 for the other points, even if we can expect 5.2.0 for early 2007 ;-) -- Pierre