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To: Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
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From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

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On Thu, 3 Jul 2025, Jakub Zelenka wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:00=E2=80=AFPM Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.mo=
e> wrote:
>=20
> > It is this time of year again where we proposed a list of=20
> > deprecations to add in PHP 8.5:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5
>
> Here are few notes on the ones that I don't agree with:
>=20
> >  Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec
>=20
> I think this might be too big BC break that might impact many scripts=20
> - would be good to see also if it impacts OSS projects. I guess it=20
> will impact even more non public code bases.

Indeed, I use this *all the time* in quick hacky shell scripts in PHP.=20
Best practise? Definitely not. But it certainly is very useful.

> > Deprecate the error_prepend_string and error_append_string INI=20
> > directives
>=20
> I think it doesn't have a good enough reason to be deprecated and=20
> might be still used. I don't see any problem with keeping them.

+1

cheers,
Derick
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