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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:27:52 +0100
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: ext/mysql deprecation
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Rasmus,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 07:24 AM, Leigh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Maybe it's time to put it into full non-maintenance mode then?
>>
>> I believe MySQL is one of the on-by-default extensions when you
>> compile PHP blindly (as I'm sure many do), why not make it require
>> enabling specifically during build configuration, along with an
>> end-of-script message that states the extension is no longer
>> maintained (not even security fixes).
>
> That is simply not true. If you download PHP and do ./configure && make
> install you do not get MySQL support. You have to explicitly specify
> that you want it.
>
> What is true is that most people no longer build PHP at all. They just
> end up with whatever their provider has installed or with whatever
> packages they end up installing when they install the PHP app they want
> to use. Both Wordpress and Drupal depends on php-mysql on Ubuntu, for
> example.
>
> It would be good if we could get the majority of the major PHP apps to
> commit to supporting mysqli along the same timeframe as marking this
> deprecated.

Here is the take of one of the WP core dev:

My take on the RFC: Toss E_DEPRECATED in already. In our case,
developers will see them, be intrigued enough to contribute. and I
gather we'd have it shipped built-in in Q2 2013.

refs from a twitter conversation:

https://twitter.com/nacin/status/268273606386126849
https://twitter.com/nacin/status/268273185307389952


Cheers,
--
Pierre

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