Re: [RFC][VOTE] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions
| From: | Andrey Andreev | Date: | Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:39:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC][VOTE] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions | ||
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Hi,
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net> wrote:
> On Mon, February 2, 2015 20:30, Andrey Andreev wrote:
>> Oh, forgot one thing ...
>>
>>
>> Mcrypt might be dead, but removing it would be a huge BC break. There
>> was some talk of binding mcrypt_*() functions to ext/openssl - I'd suggest
>> that instead of removal.
>>
> that sounds plausible, but the same one could say about mapping to be
> removed regex to pcre. If anything of that is going to be happening, so I
> would welcome another RFC and implementation.
>
Not quite ... ereg has been deprecated since PHP 5.3, while mcrypt was
never deprecated and is extremely wide-spread in PHP code (that does
encryption) today.
Cheers,
Andrey.