Re: RFC: ext/mysql deprecation

Am 12.11.2012 15:41, schrieb Ulf Wendel: > Am 11.2012 14:00, schrieb Adam Harvey: >> I've written an RFC to cover deprecating ext/mysql in PHP 5.5: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation. While we >> handled the soft >> deprecation in the documentation purely via a straw poll on Internals, >> I presume this will end up needing to go to a vote, hence the RFC. > > Adam, > > I am more than happy someone who is not paid by MySQL took the time to > write an RFC. > > I/we have been trying to sing the "stop using ext/mysql"-song since at > least since 2006. We put ext/mysql in a (security) bug fix maintenance > mode only years ago. Too many ignore those attempts to get rid of > ext/mysql. > > I searched a major search engine for PHP MySQL tutorials a few months > ago. 9 out of the top 10 search results demonstrated how to use > ext/mysql. 90% are of the tutorials are ashaming junk in my eyes. Wake > them up. The year 2013 is just around the corner... > > However, because of the documentation situation, we waited and waited. > You initiative seems to show that the deprecation message has finally > reached circles outside MySQL. > > Ulf > I think the best way of getting rid of trash php tutorials is not catering to their wrong ways. Run the standard deprecate-remove cycle instead, as you and most of us prefer. -- Ralf Lang Linux Consultant / Developer Tel.: +49-170-6381563 Mail: lang@b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537