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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: ext/mysql deprecation
From: lang@b1-systems.de (Ralf Lang)

Am 12.11.2012 15:41, schrieb Ulf Wendel:
> Am 11.2012 14:00, schrieb Adam Harvey:
>> I've written an RFC to cover deprecating ext/mysql in PHP 5.5:
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation. While we handled the soft
>> deprecation in the documentation purely via a straw poll on Internals,
>> I presume this will end up needing to go to a vote, hence the RFC.
> 
> Adam,
> 
> I am more than happy someone who is not paid by MySQL took the time to
> write an RFC.
> 
> I/we have been trying to sing the "stop using ext/mysql"-song since at
> least since 2006. We put ext/mysql in a (security) bug fix maintenance
> mode only years ago. Too many ignore those attempts to get rid of
> ext/mysql.
> 
> I searched a major search engine for PHP MySQL tutorials a few months
> ago. 9 out of the top 10 search results demonstrated how to use
> ext/mysql. 90% are of the tutorials are ashaming junk in my eyes. Wake
> them up. The year 2013 is just around the corner...
> 
> However, because of the documentation situation, we waited and waited.
> You initiative seems to show that the deprecation message has finally
> reached circles outside MySQL.
> 
> Ulf
> 

I think the best way of getting rid of trash php tutorials is not
catering to their wrong ways.

Run the standard deprecate-remove cycle instead, as you and most of us
prefer.

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