Re: get_magic_quotes_gpc, get-magic-quotes-runtime in head, get a "final" decision

On Feb 6, 2008 1:01 AM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2008 5:46 PM, Mike Willbanks <pencap@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I know they've been marked "deprecated" and all, but, really, > > > what's > > > the cost/penalty to having a couple functions around for legacy apps? > > > > > > > Then we will continue to be at the same old issue of they exist, people will > > continue to use them and never move away from them. > > Without expanding too much, I'd say that we're not going to > advertise the availability of the function, so people would no longer > use that. However, removal of the function won't instantly break all > legacy scripts. As Hannes and I were discussing off-list, I feel it's > something that should be removed in a Generation 7 or 8 release, but > with the function availability still existing in PHP5, I believe it's Again, we are talking about PHP6 here. It is a one time opportunity to drop these functions and be happy for the next 8 years. But this has been discussed to death. Please say +1/-1/0 =) -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org