Re: alpha3 or forever hold your peace

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

On 10.11.2008, at 11:41, Jani Taskinen wrote:

2. Change ext/ereg to be disabled by default (scheduled to be removed

in     PHP 6, iirc?)

IIRC we are not yet in agreement on the removal. AFAIK its already an extension in PHP6, but I am not sure if we wanted to continue with the

You don't follow the CVS a lot, do you? revision 1.2.2.2 date: 2007/10/05 15:00:05; author: jani; state: Exp; lines: +56 -0 MFH:- Moved the old regex functions to own extension: ereg

proposal that Andrei (IIRC) made to remove it. If we are doing to remove it we should add E_DEPRECATED.

3. Remove ext/mhash (replaced by ext/hash)

So what was the deal here? ext/hash automatically provides the ext/mhash functions if the extension is not compiled in. So the main reason to keep ext/mhash is just to allow if extension mhash exists .. ? I think this is easy enough for people to fix by replacing this check with an function_exists() check.

Exactly. --Jani