Re: ext/imap -> bye bye in PHP 5.6

Hi Hannes, On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Hannes Magnusson < hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a thread in April 2012 about removing ext/imap since > c-client is dead and has been for a while. > It has been longer while now, and distros like RHEL-7 have dropped the > extension completely. > > We can't pretend anymore that ext/imap is a _core_ functionality of > PHP that everyone writing webapps needs. It needs to be removed :) > > > Ferenc, David; What exactly is the procedure for doing that, > considering 5.6 has shipped its first alpha? > Remove it from master only, or killing it from 5.6 OK? > I'm not against removal of ext/imap from core. Should removal of ext/imap be documented in 5.5 at least? It would be better to keep feature after announce at least few versions. IMHO. For modules, moving them to PECL is a option and users may build modules if they really need them. Therefore, immediate removal would not be a real issue, though. We are better to have deprecation/removal guideline since we have similar discussion over and over. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net