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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove sqlite2 from trunk
From: ulf.wendel@phpdoc.de (Ulf Wendel)

Johannes Schlüter schrieb:
> On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 12:45 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>> Am 19.06.2010 11:33, schrieb Patrick ALLAERT:
>>> What are the possible actions/alternatives?
>>  I think this was already mentioned: add a BC layer to ext/mysqli so
>>  that the "new" extension supports the old mysql_* functions. This would
>>  rid us off the old ext/mysql code without breaking code that relies on
>>  it.
> 
> ... while such a wrapper has about the same amount of code as the
> classic mysql extension (... which is in most parts a simple wrapper
> over library functions...) Or in other words: Such a wrapper doesn't
> have real benefits. 

And any wrapper which is there by default won't change anything. People 
will continue to use the old API. You need to move the masses or create 
facts by removing ext/mysql. The latter is quite crazy considering how 
popular ext/mysql is. Its popularity is somewhat understandable: its old 
and the API is very phpish in a classical non PJAVA sense.

One of the few things that could be done is adding a note to each and 
every ext/mysql docs page stating that one shall use ext/mysqli instead 
and give examples how to do it.

Ulf