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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC} Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 19.09.2018 at 00:24, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

>> Hmm, I have some doubts that it's okay for users if we remove the WDDX
>> extension in PHP 7.4 without any deprecation phase.  Is there any
> 
> I think deprecation phase is necessary for features that are being
> removed. For extension being moved to PECL I do not see any point in
> annoying the users for a year with error messages. If they need it,
> they'll keep using it anyway, if they do not, they'll drop it - but
> deprecation messages here do not add much value that one single
> announcement can't make.

Okay, I get your point.  The accepted “Cleaning up unmaintained
extensions” RFC[1] suggests to move to PECL without any deprecation, so
it seems to me we should follow that RFC (i.e. start with a call for
maintainership).

[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions>

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Christoph M. Becker