Re: Re: [VOTE] ext/mysql deprecation in 5.5

Kris Craig in php.internals (Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:33:55 -0800): >We also know that E_DEPRECATED works when other approaches do not. I would >point you all to the famous example of Drupal 7, which would break >completely due to a flurry of E_DEPRECATED warnings (if display_errors was >set to on) being triggered as of 5.3 due to their continued use of >magic_quotes_gpc and magic_quotes_runtime. When Drupal 8 was released some >time later, the code was fixed so that it no longer used those out-dated >functions. http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core Drupal 8 will not be released before August 2013. Maybe in the current core the E_DEPRECATED warnings are gone, but certainly not in many of the modules. People are still switching to Drupal7. And Drupal7 throws the watchdog full with E_DEPRECATED warnings when it is running onder PHP5.4. The views module has issues with PHP 5.4, but some modules even let Drupal7 under PHP5.4 crash completely: http://drupal.org/node/1831402 If E_DEPRECATED stays in ext/mysql even after it has moved to PECL, the result will be that more and more people turn E_DEPRECATED warnings off. Jan