Re: Intention to move mcrypt to PECL

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:22 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. > > - Davey > Furthermore the release process RFC *explicitly* allows moving extensions to PECL in minor versions. Nikita