Re: Re: [VOTE] ext/mysql deprecation in 5.5
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:39:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [VOTE] ext/mysql deprecation in 5.5 | ||
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On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 23:28 -0500, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
> Case in point, take a look at 5.3.0. The following extensions were moved to
> PECL:
>
>
> - ext/dbase
> - ext/fbsql
> - ext/fdf
> - ext/ncurses
> - ext/mhash (BC layer is now entirely within ext/hash)
> - ext/ming
> - ext/msql
> - ext/sybase
>
>
> Now you could make the argument that they weren't as used as ext/mysql. But
> they were removed from core without raising E_DEPRECATED first.
There is another argument: Those aren't deprecated. They were just
moved. Aside from mhash it is still fine to use those, we simply don't
bundle them anymore. For mhash there is an equivalent replacement in the
distribution.
With ext/mysql it is about "don't use this anymore. Use mysqli or such"
johannes