Re: 5.5 to 5.6 cleanup

On 18 January 2014 07:07, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote: > In 5.5, we deprecated some things : > - /e for preg > - ext/mysql > - ext/intl stuff > > I recall that based on our release process, those items should now get > removed from 5.6 code for final release. I don't think that's specified anywhere — we _can_ choose to remove them in 5.6 if we want to, but that doesn't mean we have to. I deliberately left that open ended for the ext/mysql deprecation, for instance. Personally, I'd be pretty strongly against unbundling ext/mysql in 5.6, as it's still too heavily used. The lag time for new PHP releases to start getting widespread use is long enough that most users haven't even seen a deprecation warning yet. The others: meh. I'm not qualified to judge how used those intl functions are, and while /e is an abomination, nobody new is going to get owned if it survives one more release. Neutral on those. Adam