Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26222 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54414 invoked by uid 1010); 24 Oct 2006 07:33:04 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54399 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2006 07:33:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Oct 2006 07:33:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lsmith@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lsmith@php.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net from 212.112.227.169 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lsmith@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.112.227.169 ipx11223.ipxserver.de Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.112.227.169] ([212.112.227.169:33789] helo=ipx11223.ipxserver.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8F/25-18710-0B1CD354 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:33:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00103DF00C7; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipx11223.ipxserver.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flottensignalgeber [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27668-09; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:33:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i577B682A.versanet.de [87.123.104.42]) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAC3DF004A; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:32:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <453DC1A1.8060302@php.net> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:32:49 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wez Furlong Cc: Marcus Boerger , internals@lists.php.net References: <1485570655.20061023210857@marcus-boerger.de> <4e89b4260610231817r4f41e375oa46fa51b557dda2e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e89b4260610231817r4f41e375oa46fa51b557dda2e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by somedaemon at backendmedia.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] E_DEPRECATED From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Kahwe Smith) Wez Furlong wrote: > I don't think we need to set any firm ground rules for the deprecation > timeline but should consider each change individually. A reasonable > rule of thumb is to remove deprecated features no sooner than 1 minor > release after the deprecation notice was added. Ideally, it should be > in a major release. I think we should have a firm rule, such as: At every major version we grep through the code base for stuff marked as deprecated and if there is not a really really good reason someone comes up with its out. Any rule should be superseded by common sense anyways. regards, Lukas