Re: mcrypt extermination plan
| From: | Lior Kaplan | Date: | Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:32:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mcrypt extermination plan | ||
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On Jan 7, 2016 6:59 PM, "Remi Collet" <remi@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> Le 07/01/2016 17:54, Scott Arciszewski a écrit :
> > All,
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> > I propose the following timeline to give ext/mcrypt the viking
> > funeral it deserves:
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> > PHP 7.1 - all mcrypt functions raise E_DEPRECATED PHP 8.0 - remove
> > ext/mcrypt, only make it available through PECL
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> Big +1.
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> We need to solve this chicken and eggs issue.
> People use it because it exists.
> It still exists because people still use it.
Why not move it to pecl as part on 7.1 ?
Kaplan