Re: [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

On Oct 12, 2014 12:54 AM, "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Kris Craig wrote: > > > On Oct 11, 2014 1:52 PM, "Nikita Popov" <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > We currently have a number of deprecated features, which we likely > > > want to remove in PHP 7. I've created a tracking RFC listing > > > deprecated functionality (if I missed something, please tell): > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_deprecated_functionality_in_php7 > > > > > > I expect many of these are no-brainers (like assigning new > > > by-reference), but other items like removal of ext/mysql may need > > > additional consideration. > > > > > > Unless there are items that are particularly contested, I'd like to > > > handle the bulk of these in a single vote and only have separate > > > votes for ext/ereg and ext/mysql, as these are arguably more > > > intrusive. > > > > +1 on all of that. > > > > As far as ext/mysql is concerned, I would eagerly vote in favor of removing > > it. It performs poorly, is procedural, less secure, doesn't support > > "is procedural" is however, never a reason to remove something. As most > of PHP's function library, is procedural and works just fine. Fair point. I agree that alone wouldn't be grounds to remove it. I was just citing that as one of many deficiencies compared to more current extensions like ext/mysqli. --Kris > > Derick > > -- > http://derickrethans.nl | > http://xdebug.org > Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug > Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine