Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.2
| From: | Marco Pivetta | Date: | Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:56:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.2 | ||
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:
> So to answer your question in a short without much more rambling: I
> think we should deprecate in x.z, then remove in x.z+1 depending on
> the feature, if we say "Oh let's remove this in the next major",
> chances are that major won't even be branches for years, and at that
> time, it could be forgotten.
>
That will end up breaking the "expected" (because it's not that way anyway,
but almost) SemVer approach, diminishing the trust from consumers in any
kind of upgrade.
Most of the current open-source libs out there are trying to push for
SemVer - having PHP not following that seems like a huge mess to me.
Marco Pivetta
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