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

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > On 5 March 2015 at 12:21, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: >> It would be good to do a pecl release for each of them, and mark the >> package as deprecated/overseeded by mysqli (I let you choose). Doing >> so will trigger a build there, cleaner. > > I'm on the fence about making a release for ereg and mysql: it would > help in terms of code availability, but at the same time I feel like > it undermines our message of "no, really, don't use these at all in > PHP 7", even though they'd be marked as unmaintained and deprecated. > > I guess I'm open to persuasion either way here. Same here. First time we moved ext to pecl I was saying that we should not provide any release and not even use pecl for that. We disagreed, so I think we should be consistent here and move on. While I do think that a lot of bad things may happen with people starting to install ext/mysql from pecl =) -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org