Re: RFC: ext/mysql deprecation
| From: | Adam Harvey | Date: | Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:41:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: ext/mysql deprecation | ||
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On 15 November 2012 08:36, Devis Lucato <devis@lucato.it> wrote:
> Sorry if this was already suggested before: for people stuck on legacy
> applications and without money to upgrade (e.g. charities, user
> groups) a PECL extension would at least provide a way to survive.
> Forcing people to upgrade doesn't sound like an improvement but more
> of a way to push people away from the language. Shouldn't this kind
> of "improvements" belong to major releases ?
Usually, when an extension is unbundled from PHP, it gets moved to
PECL. Theoretically, if somebody wanted to maintain it there, they
could volunteer and do so.
Again, though, this is a long way down the road: today's discussion is
purely about deprecation.
Adam