Re: [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

Note, that once we move extension outside of main source tree, only extension maintainers (if any) will support them. According to the voting process, I think it makes sense to vote for each feature separately. Thanks. Dmitry. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2014, at 16:47, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Oct 11, 2014 1:52 PM, "Nikita Popov" <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi internals! > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Nikita > > > > +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 > > prepared statements, etc. > > > > It's always annoyed me how sites like w3schools still teach people to use > > ext/mysql. It's been deprecated for quite awhile now and I think it's > time > > to pull the plug on it. > > Keep in mind though that it would be mostly symbolic. The majority of > users get their PHP and extensions from distros. And distros have been > separating out core-bundled extensions for a decade now. Users have > absolutely no idea whether their php-mysql package comes from core or from > pecl, nor do they care. So, unbundling it on our side will have close to > zero impact on its use. In fact, in a weird way it might actually help make > people continue to use it because if we unbundle it and stick it in pecl we > would obviously not have it spew out 'deprecated' notices like we do as of > 5.5. I mean, we still could, of course, but it would be weird having a > non-core pecl extension declare itself deprecated. > > I am not against unbundling it, I just don't think it will achieve what > you hope it will. > > -Rasmus > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >