Re: Re: [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

On 21 December 2014 03:29:54 GMT, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> wrote: >Hey: > > > >On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> Hey Xinchen, >> >>> On 21 Dec 2014, at 03:22, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> wrote: >> >>> I am strongly against to remove ext/mysql >>> >>> that means, all wordpress users/maintainers, will not able to >upgrade >>> to PHP7 without pain. >> >> It’d be in PECL and I’m sure every distro would package it, so >there’d be no pain. >> >> But I also somewhat disagree with removing it, as if it’s in PECL >having deprecation notices makes no sense, and we might get rid of >them. :( >> >actually, I hope, only hope. > >we release PHP7 without any big BC break, give people transparent >performance improvement.. > >then we can do minor bc breaks in the second number releases... 7.1 , >7.2 That is more or less the opposite of the agreed release process - obviously we can have *minor* bc breaks later, but putting things off from a 7.0 release to encourage adoption just puts off the problem and risks 7.1 becoming a repeat of 5.3/5.4 in terms of adoption.