Re: [RFC][VOTE] Deprecate then Remove Mcrypt
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:26:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC][VOTE] Deprecate then Remove Mcrypt | ||
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On Mar 16, 2016 12:22 AM, "Remi Collet" <remi@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Le 15/03/2016 17:11, Scott Arciszewski a écrit :
> > Hi PHP team,
> >
> > I've opened the vote on
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral which aims
> > to
> > deprecate ext/mcrypt in PHP 7.1 then remove it in 7.1+1 (i.e. make
> > it only installable via PECL).
> >
> > In the interim, I'll be developing a (MIT licensed)
> > decryption-only userland implementation of the mcrypt ciphers so
> > people can migrate their code towards something better.
> >
> > This vote is opened on March 15th, 2016 and will close March 22th
> > at 17:00 UTC.
> >
>
> +1 from me.
>
>
> Probably you miss keeping mcrypt extension means:
>
> "PHP becomes upstream for libmcrypt"
>
> So, to all people who wote "no",
> please make clear you want to maintain this library.
+1 here but I wonder why it would be different now than with 7.0 except
introducing a BC in a minor release (7.2)?
I would still vote +1 while it should be removed with 8.0.
Cheers
Pierre