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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] un-deprecating ticks ?
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 19.03.2009, at 14:32, Arnaud Le Blanc wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After having seen some complaints about ticks being deprecated I'm
> wondering if they could be un-deprecated for now.
>
> Ticks are used by the pcntl extension to call signal handlers when
> signals are triggered. I added some functions as an alternative, but
> this does not covers all use cases (and forces a code change).
>
> When searching bug reports about ticks, one can feel the ticks to be
> broken (and this is why they have been deprecated). However, looking  
> in
> depth at these bugs and viewing what caused them and how they have  
> been
> fixed does not show really bad things about ticks.
>
> Actually one thing is broken (and is marked as such in the
> documentation), tick functions do not work in ZTS, this looks fixable.
>
> Any thoughts on removing the deprecation warning for now ? (at least
> until a replacement is found).
>
> Sorry for posting this so close to the freeze.


So what is it going to be?
I remember everybody was happy when it was deprecated. But I think  
everybody ran under the impression that ticks is evil.
Indeed the only open ticket is #47198, which is the doc bug. Or did we  
close tons of ticks bugs because it was deprecated?

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org