Re: un-deprecating ticks ?

2009/3/25 Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>: > > On 19.03.2009, at 14:32, Arnaud Le Blanc wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> After having seen some complaints about ticks being deprecated I'm >> wondering if they could be un-deprecated for now. >> >> Ticks are used by the pcntl extension to call signal handlers when >> signals are triggered. I added some functions as an alternative, but >> this does not covers all use cases (and forces a code change). >> >> When searching bug reports about ticks, one can feel the ticks to be >> broken (and this is why they have been deprecated). However, looking in >> depth at these bugs and viewing what caused them and how they have been >> fixed does not show really bad things about ticks. >> >> Actually one thing is broken (and is marked as such in the >> documentation), tick functions do not work in ZTS, this looks fixable. >> >> Any thoughts on removing the deprecation warning for now ? (at least >> until a replacement is found). >> >> Sorry for posting this so close to the freeze. > > > So what is it going to be? > I remember everybody was happy when it was deprecated. But I think everybody > ran under the impression that ticks is evil. > Indeed the only open ticket is #47198, which is the doc bug. Or did we close > tons of ticks bugs because it was deprecated? If ticks will be fixable in ZTS then I will be +1 for fixing them and undeprecating them, as its not a new feature but a bug fix. > -- Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net