[RFC] Removal of deprecated features

Hey Everyone I've put together a simple RFC[1] that lists features thats been deprecated in 5.3, someone of them which I propose we remove in the next version of PHP, depending on the version number. Most of the features, which is listed below are taken from the old 6.0 NEWS[2] file, and items from the old PHP6 TODO[3]. safe_mode/register_globals/register_long_arrays/magic_quotes_*/allow_call_time_pass_reference - Something we have long time been wanted to remove from PHP, I don't see a big reason to keep those in the next version, even if its going to be a 5.4, since we already removed things like zend.ze1_compatibility_mode. See the magic quotes RFC[4]. define_syslog_variables and its associated function - Originally agreed to be removed in PHP6 during the 5.3 development, if there is no objects then I will remove by the end of this weekend. asp_tags - Proposed to be removed aswell, Tony had a patch for this[5]. sql_safe_mode - Theres currently an RFC in the works about this by Johannes[6]. session_register/session_is_registered/session_register - Only needed for register_globals, Hannes removed those in PHP6. enable_dl - Is this really worth keeping, since dl() was disabled on almost all SAPIs except for CLI/CGI/Embed? Support for Freetype 1 and GD 1 - Removed by Pierre in PHP6 Support for "continue" and "break" operators with non constant operands - Removed by Dmitry in PHP6. Undocumented and incomplete support for strings in list() operator - Removed by Dmitry in PHP6 aswell. detect_unicode/highlight_bg - Two ini values thats been marked as removed features from PHP6 in the manual. Not sure about detect_unicode, but highlight_bg is pretty pointless. y2k_compliance - From the manual "Enforce year 2000 compliance (will cause problems with non-compliant browsers)", we are in 2010, we should remove this option and enable it by default and remove the checks. Perhaps Derick got an insight here? Class named constructors - A feature thats been marked in the manual as something that would be removed in a future version of PHP6. It was not to be knowing ever decided to be kept or not, but now with the recent removal of them in namespaces then I don't see a big point in keeping them. If there is anything I forgot then let me know and I will add it to the RFC, else discussions away! [1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal-of-deprecated-features [2] http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/FIRST_UNICODE_IMPLEMENTATION/NEWS?view=markup [3] http://wiki.php.net/todo/php60 [4] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/magicquotes [5] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=117640641605813&w=2 [6] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/drop_sql.safe_mode -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net