Re: mcrypt extermination plan
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:12:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mcrypt extermination plan | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Jan 7, 2016 11:54 PM, "Scott Arciszewski" <scott@paragonie.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I propose the following timeline to give ext/mcrypt the viking funeral
> it deserves:
>
> PHP 7.1 - all mcrypt functions raise E_DEPRECATED
> PHP 8.0 - remove ext/mcrypt, only make it available through PECL
>
> There will be no compatibility layer in this proposal, but if someone
> wants to build one that sits atop openssl, feel free to do that
> separately.
>
Sounds good to me :)