Re: Intention to move mcrypt to PECL
| From: | Davey Shafik | Date: | Thu, 06 Oct 2016 03:22:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Intention to move mcrypt to PECL | ||
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Leigh,
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > It is my intention to create a new PECL package for ext/mcrypt, so
> > that it can be removed from master as per the RFC
> > (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral)
> >
> > I do not expect there to be any updates to the extension after it has
> > been migrated, however we voted to move it there.
> >
> > Any objections/comments? If not I'll apply for my PECL account in the
> > next few days.
>
> I am not sure to follow.
>
> We rejected to move it out of the core for 7.0. This RFC is about
> deprecation for 7.1.
>
> As much as I want to kill this beast as soon as possible, I do not
> think we can kill it in 7.x but 8.x. It is also why I was pushing so
> hard to kill it in 7.0, knowing that this will be tried again and
> sadly for 7.x.
From the RFC:
> In PHP 7.1+1 (be it 7.2 or 8.0), the crypt extension will be moved out of
core and into PECL
and
> Vote “Yes” to raise an E_DEPRECATED notice in PHP 7.1 when any crypt
function is used and to remove the extension from core in 7.1+1.
So, per the RFC, moving to PECL in 7.2 is correct.
- Davey