Re: Intention to move mcrypt to PECL

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Davey Shafik <davey@php.net> wrote: > 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. "In PHP 7.1+1 (be it 7.2 or 8.0)," I took it as 8, for the reason explained earlier. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org