Re: Proposal to deprecate create_function()

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/10/2013 15:02, Ryan McCue wrote: >> >> There's only one place I can think of in the plugin community where it's >> still used a fair bit (widget registration), but we can work on >> discouraging that and there's a fair amount of time until the next >> release in any case. > > > Don't forget we're only talking about deprecating, not removing it > immediately, so discouraging usage rather than eliminating it is very much > to the point. > > The absolute earliest this would actually be removed would be in 5.7, > sometime in 2015. In fact, deprecating now but not expecting removal to be > possible until 5.8 / 2016 seems reasonable to me. I don't think we can ever remove it in 5.x. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org